On 10/09/2018 09:07, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.09.18 um 16:47 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: >> On Mon 2018-09-10 14:07:44 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> It might be a reasonable middle ground for sockets and other >>> auto-activation mechanisms to be statically enabled on the user bus, so >>> that the services are not started eagerly, but are started on-demand? >> >> For the record, this is what the gpg-agent and dirmngr packages do. It >> would be great if it was well-supported by dh-systemd, instead of being >> done manually in debian/dirmngr.links and debian/gpg-agent.links. > > Work is being done on dh_installsystemduser > Some bits have already landed in init-system-helpers [1] and there is an > open MR for debhelper [2]. > Once that MR lands in debhelper, picking a package like gpg-agent and > converting it to the new helper might be a good idea to give it some > real world testing and shake out any bugs. > > CCed Daniele, as he's been the one driving this effort.
Hello all, I just found the time to rebase the debhelper patch [1]. It should be ready to be merged now. As soon as a debhlper version with the patch incorporated is release I will re-upload my dbus-broker package to mentors.d.n to give the thing some real world exposure. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/merge_requests/5 Cheers, Dan

