I ran into this issue today, and at the very least it is a documentation
issue.

The only way I've found to get watchdog running on startup is to modify
watchdog.service.

I found instructions on how to do this here:
https://kd8twg.net/2015/10/30/raspberry-pi-enabling-watchdog-on-
raspbian-jessie/

Basically you just need to add the following lines to
/lib/systemd/system/watchdog.service:

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After that, systemctl enable watchdog.service works as intended.

However, it doesn't seem right that you should modify a system file to
get it to start correctly. If there is a better way to start watchdog,
it should be documented somewhere. Otherwise, should I create a patch to
add this change? Or would it be better to report this to Debian?

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