On 29/01/2025 01:39, Greg Wooledge wrote:
The question is about this dangling symlink:
hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
-> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service
[...]
I'm unclear on exactly how this symlink gets created.
My guess, it is effect of
Alias=dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
from /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service and
deb-systemd-helper enable 'systemd-timesyncd.service' >/dev/null ||
true
from systemd-timesyncd.postinst. I am not familiar with systemd-related
machinery in package scripts. Perhaps systemd-timesyncd.prerm should call
deb-systemd-helper disable 'systemd-timesyncd.service'
to remove the synlink on "remove" dpkg action. Now service is likely
disabled on "purge" from postrm, but systemd-timesyncd.service should be
removed at this point, so perhaps there is no chance to find the alias.
I would report a bug. The maintainers of systemd package should know
better purpose and effects of helper scripts.
