What about services that only have systemd service files

[Lorenzo]

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:26:42 +0000
Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:

> Whilst I appreciate Matthew's willingness to accept 2), I still
> consider 1) the better solution. I hope that many maintainers will
> accept a tested patch with offer to continue support. So I think that
> should be the first route.

For systemd users services, like wireplumber or pipewire, there are
problems with 1):

 A) services are meant to be run with the user that logs in (for
    example Martin's user) and we don't know in advance the name/UID of
    the user

 B) services are meant to be started when the user logs in and stopped
    when he logs out

I think anyone sending a patch with a sysv script (or runit/openrc) for
such services should have a solution for A and B first. Or a solution
already exists and I'm missing it?

Lorenzo

> 
> > 3) Research translating at least basic systemd service files into 
> > something that works for non systemd services.
> 
> I have looked at this. There is contrib/sysd2v/sh in
> src:sysvinit/contrib and systemd-unit-translator[1] to openrc scripts.
> 
> Neither is complete but I did some work to improve both a while ago.
> They work for basic cases, but socket-activation is still
> problematic: socket-activate is inactive[2]. There is a suggestion
> that dpkg might gain socket-activation support which might help[3]
> 
> Mark
> 
> [1]  git at git.devuan.org:leepen/systemd-unit-translator.git
> 
> [2]  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/socket-activate
> 
> [3]  https://bugs.debian.org/922412
> 
>