Package: anope Version: 2.0.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Please consider adding a native systemd service masking the init script (fixes the lintian tag in subject[1]). I had a quick look at the current init script and it looked quite straight forward to convert to a service description. My completely untested attempt is attached. Hopefully it can serve as a starting point for working on this. Please ask if you have any questions about this, I'm happy to help out if you provide the testing and review (as I don't actually use anope myself). It would also be a good idea to apply some security hardening on the service. This requires intimate knowledge about the service so I did not attempt this, hopefully you can add it. For advice see: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/systemd-service-file-missing-hardening-features.html Finally, please also get rid of the START=no anti-pattern[2] used in /etc/default/anope and the init script. If you want the user to review the configuration before it's safe to start the service, then don't enable the service! Let the user enable it once they've done the necessary precautionary steps via standardized system-wide commands, eg. `systemctl enable --now anope` (rather than knowing about modifying distro and application specific configuration files). Regards, Andreas Henriksson [1]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script.html [2]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/init.d-script-should-always-start-service.html
[Unit] Description=anope IRC services After=network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/anope/anope.pid RuntimeDirectory=anope # Service supports reloading via SIGHUP, but ExecReload= not set to kill # because signals are asynchronous and reload command should block until # reload actually finishes which we have no idea about. Environment="DAEMON_ARGS=--confdir=/etc/anope --dbdir=/var/lib/anope/db --logdir=/var/log/anope --modulesdir=/usr/lib/anope --localedir=/usr/share/anope/locale" EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/anope ExecStart=/usr/sbin/anope $DAEMON_ARGS User=irc Group=irc # TODO: security hardening
