bird on Xenial doesn't restart after reboot

[Ondrej Filip]

On 7.8.2016 01:22, Neil Jerram wrote:

Hi Neil!
It should be fixed now.

	Ondrej


> Is this the right place to report and discuss an apparent bug with
> packaging in ppa:cz.nic-labs/bird ?  If not, please advise where would
> be better.
> 
> If it is the right place...  I'd like to report that bird on Xenial
> doesn't restart after a reboot, using bird version 1.6.0-1+xenial+1
> from http://ppa.launchpad.net/cz.nic-labs/bird/ubuntu xenial/main amd64.
> 
> It appears the package is a bit inconsistent in its init system handling:
> 
> - It installs init configuration files for SysV, upstart and systemd.
> 
> - Its postinst (install-time) script calls 'update-rc.d bird defaults'
> and 'invoke-rc.d bird start'.
> 
> On Xenial (which uses systemd), the invoke-rc.d call goes through to
> systemd - or at least, systemctl status bird indicates running after
> an 'invoke-rc.d bird start', and inactive after an 'invoke-rc.d bird
> stop' - but the update-rc.d call does not call on to 'systemctl enable
> bird'.  Hence the observation that bird is not restarted on reboot.
> 
> Thoughts?  From analogy with other packages (that are systemd-enabled
> when installed), I think the fix may be as simple as:
> 
> - adding '--with systemd' to the dh invocation
> 
> - adding dh-systemd as a build dep.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>      Neil
> 
>