Legacy systemd unit files openvpn.service & openvpn@.service still used

Bug #2038874 reported by wontfix
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Bug Description

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenVPN-systemd-use
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Systemd

> Note:

    openvpn@.service is deprecated.
    openvpn.service is obsoleted. (This is only used for backward compatibility)

Deprecated and obsolete from v2.4 12/27/2016

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/Changes.rst#overview-of-changes-in-24

This starts on any supported desktop installation.

~$ systemctl status openvpn.service
● openvpn.service - OpenVPN service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvpn.service; enabled; vendor prese>
     Active: active (exited)

~$ systemd-analyze blame | grep openvpn
   33ms openvpn.service

wontfix (wontfix)
summary: - Legacy systemd unit files openvpn.service & openvpn@.service still
- included and running
+ Legacy systemd unit files openvpn.service & openvpn@.service still used
tags: added: openvpn
Changed in openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro) wrote :

I wonder if these are indeed inspired in the legacy upstream unit files or if they were created by the debian maintainers (from the change history, it seems to be the latter).

Still, when looking at the new upstream unit files, I agree they could be improved (e.g., they new use sd_notify to manage the service).

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