Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 15.04.20 um 08:56 schrieb Reindl Harald:
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> Am 15.04.20 um 08:51 schrieb Klaus Darilion:
>> Hello!
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>> What is the rationale of:
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>> bind9 (1:9.13.6-1) experimental; urgency=medium
>> ...
>>   * Rename the init scripts to named to match the name of the daemon
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>> Since years, Debian and Ubuntu User, and plenty of scripts and automation software (Puppet ...), know that the service is called "bind9". I think it is very confusing and will cause lots of headaches once Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 11 is released.
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>> So I really do not understand this renaming.
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>> The software is "Bind 9". The package is "bind9". The service for long time was "bind9". The config is in /etc/bind. Only the binary is named. So it would have made more sense to rename the binary. (actually the binary is not so important for end users: they install the package and manage the service and usually do not have to worry about the name of the binary).
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>> It would be great if you undo this change before release of 18.04
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> you confuse the upstream project with your distribution
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> bind9 was completly wrong in the debian world as well as apache2 for
> httpd, on sane distributions it's "httpt" and "named" all the years
> beause it's nonsense to throw vesions in service names

BTW in case Debian/Ubuntu when they do RTFM it wouldn't be an issue at all

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ systemctl status sddm
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.d

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ systemctl status display-manager.service
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.d
           └─security.conf, start-before.conf

[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service
[Unit]
Description=Simple Desktop Display Manager
Conflicts=getty at tty1.service
After=getty at tty1.service systemd-logind.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm
Restart=always
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/sddm

[Install]
Alias=display-manager.service