Re: t7900 fails with recent debian systemd?

> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 5:36 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > After stracing, it is indeed looking for:
> >
> >   trash directory.t7900-maintenance/systemd/user/git-maintenance@hourly.service
> >
> > but that file doesn't exist. We installed git-maintenance@hourly.timer,
> > and git-maintenance@.service. Is the latter supposed to be a wildcard of
> > some kind? Maybe the rules changed. I don't really know anything about
> > systemd.
> 
> Apparently, that's intentional. From builtin/gc.c:
> 
>     /*
>      * No matter the schedule, we use the same service and can make
>      * use of the templating system. When installing
>      * git-maintenance@<schedule>.timer, systemd will notice that
>      * git-maintenance@.service exists as a template and will use this
>      * file and insert the <schedule> into the template at the
>      * position of "%i".
>      */
>     static int systemd_timer_write_service_template(const char *exec_path)
>     {
>         char *local_service_name = xstrfmt(SYSTEMD_UNIT_FORMAT, "", "service");