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

[Klaus Darilion]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: bind-users <bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org> Im Auftrag von Reindl
> Harald
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. April 2020 09:05
> An: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Betreff: Re: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to
> named?
> 
> 
> 
> Am 15.04.20 um 08:56 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> >
> >
> > Am 15.04.20 um 08:51 schrieb Klaus Darilion:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> What is the rationale of:
> >>
> >> bind9 (1:9.13.6-1) experimental; urgency=medium
> >> ...
> >>   * Rename the init scripts to named to match the name of the daemon
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> So I really do not understand this renaming.
> >>
> >> 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).
> >>
> >> It would be great if you undo this change before release of 18.04
> >
> > you confuse the upstream project with your distribution
> >
> > 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

Can you please describe what you want to point out? I can not follow you.

Klaus