On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:57:23PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > -    if [ $code -eq 104 ] && \
> > -            ! command -v systemctl > /dev/null ; then
> > -        # We're not using systemd and thus may have some sysvinit cleanup
> > -        # to do in order to comply with policy 9.3.3.1
> > -
> > -        if [ -z "$ENABLED" -o "$ENABLED" = 0 ]; then
> > -            # The rc?d symlinks are inconsistent with the value set in
> > -            # /etc/default/spamassassin. Update the symlinks to
> > -            # reflect the actual state.
> > -            update-rc.d -f spamassassin remove
> > -            update-rc.d -f spamassassin defaults-disabled
> > -            deb-systemd-helper disable spamassassin.service
> > -        fi
> > -    elif [ $code -eq 101 ] && \
> > -             command -v systemctl > /dev/null && \
> > -             [ $ENABLED -eq 1 ]; then
> > -        # We're running on a systemd system, and the service is not
> > -        # configured to start (the default), but the admin has
> > -        # previously enabled it via
> > -        # /etc/default/spamassassin. Preserve that configuration.
> > -        deb-systemd-helper enable spamassassin.service
> > -    fi
> > 
> > Won't this introduce a similar bug for systemd users who have ENABLED=1
> > in /etc/default/spamassassin?  The expectation is that this setting is 
> > preserved by enabling the systemd service if ENABLED=1 is set.
> 
> Given that /etc/default/spamassassin does not set ENABLED anymore, by
> default on systemd systems that code block would no longer run. If the
> admin had not updated the conffile (due to local changes) to remove the
> variable (and thus the block would still run now), the code block would
> have already taken effect in the previous stable release to set the
> desired outcome (and preserve the state). So it seemed safe to me to
> remove both as part of the ENABLED variable deprecation process.

Yes, you're correct.  The code you deleted in your patch should have
been removed a long time ago.  (really multiple releases ago, but that's
ok)

noah

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