Bug#970391: /bin/systemctl: Changes in [Install] not valued by "systemctl enable" if service already enabled.

2020-09-15 Thread Michael Biebl
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Bug#970391: /bin/systemctl: Changes in [Install] not valued by "systemctl enable" if service already enabled.

2020-09-15 Thread FelixJN
Package: systemd
Version: 241-7~deb10u4
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/systemctl

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Added a "RequiredBy=B.service" in existing A.service 
([Install]-section) to target dependencies.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?

Used "systemctl enable A.service" as well as "systemctl daemon-reload" 
to activate "RequiredBy"-dependency.
Instead B.service had to be disabled and re-enabled to properly create 
"Requires"-dependency.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Dependency was not generated.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Expected "B.service.requires/A.service" to be created directly if 
"systemctl enable B.service" is executed, even when B.service is already 
enabled.


BR & TY,
Felix

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser  3.118
ii  libacl1  2.2.53-4
ii  libapparmor1 2.13.2-10
ii  libaudit11:2.8.4-3
ii  libblkid12.33.1-0.1
ii  libc62.28-10
ii  libcap2  1:2.25-2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.1.0-5+deb10u2
ii  libgcrypt20  1.8.4-5
ii  libgnutls30  3.6.7-4+deb10u5
ii  libgpg-error01.35-1
ii  libidn11 1.33-2.2
ii  libip4tc01.8.2-4
ii  libkmod2 26-1
ii  liblz4-1 1.8.3-1
ii  liblzma5 5.2.4-1
ii  libmount12.33.1-0.1
ii  libpam0g 1.3.1-5
ii  libseccomp2  2.3.3-4
ii  libselinux1  2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0  241-7~deb10u4
ii  mount2.33.1-0.1
ii  util-linux   2.33.1-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  libpam-systemd  241-7~deb10u4

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-10.105-25
pn  systemd-container  

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut   
ii  initramfs-tools  0.133+deb10u1
ii  udev 241-7~deb10u4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information