Hi, On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:48:03 +0100 Carles Pina i Estany <car...@pina.cat> wrote:
> > Hello, > > I've packaged "simplemonitor". The package adds a simplemonitor user, > and a systemd service to run simplemonitor under this user and using > the configuration files from /etc/simplemonitor > > I know that some user did "apt install simplemonitor" and then tried > to use simplemonitor without systemd (which is possible, but > reinventing the wheel). The user tried it that because he didn't > realise that simplemonitor was integrated with systemd, the > simplemonitor system user, checks on startup, etc. > > My question is: how to inform users about systemd integration? If your package uses dh_installsystemd to integrate with systemd, that should be enough. Lorenzo > > As a user, what I do when I wonder about that is "dpkg -L PACKAGE" > and see if I spot some systemd service files. And also tend to read > /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz or related files to see if > the maintainer wrote any information there. > > To be more proactive about that, I thought to add a debconf template > with something such as (untested, just the idea): > > ---- > Template: simplemonitor/systemd-info > Type: note > _Description: Usage of simplemonitor > The simplemonitor package integrates with systemd. Set it up in > /etc/simplemonitor and then use: > > sudo systemctl restart simplemonitor > ---- > > But I wonder of any more standard ways to do that, what other packages > do, etc. > > Thanks very much! >
