[Bug 1959054] Re: debhelper restarts services marked --no-restart-on-upgrade

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

FYI: Keeping things up is even harder, while restarting sockets in the past complained about services already being up they now restart the service.
So if anyone is looking at this for some package, be careful that you'd also need to handle .socket files special now as they are affected by this issue here as well and when restarted will carry the problem to the service.

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Title:
  debhelper restarts services marked --no-restart-on-upgrade

Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in debhelper source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in libvirt source package in Jammy:
  Triaged
Status in debhelper package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Debian bug #994204 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994204) describes a flaw in debhelper that
  results in the postinst being generated in such a fashion that
  services marked --no-stop-on-upgrade (or its deprecated alias --no-
  restart-on-upgrade), restart anyway.

  Please note: this is nothing to do with the --no-restart-after-upgrade
  flag (which is, somewhat confusingly IMO, unrelated).

  I've confirmed that the flaw appears to be present in the jammy
  version of debhelper (though not impish) and that packages generated
  with it appear to contain the flawed postinst (I first encountered
  this whilst working on the open-iscsi merge), though I haven't yet
  managed to test that the flaw exhibits itself on upgrade (though I'd
  say from the presence of the flaw in the postinst, that it's a
  reasonable inference that it will).

  In dbus (the merge of which I'm currently working on), Debian has
  worked around this but given I've now run into two affected packages
  (open-iscsi and dbus), only one of which has a work-around, I'd much
  rather we got debhelper fixed up and rebuilt affected packages?

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