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# `systemd-service-in-odd-location`

The package ships a systemd service file in a location outside `/usr/lib/systemd/system/`

Systemd in Debian looks for unit files in `/usr/lib/systemd/system/`. `/lib/systemd/system/` and `/etc/systemd/system`, but the first location is now standard in Debian.

System administrators have the possibility to override service files (or in newer systemd versions, parts of them) by placing files in `/etc/systemd/system`. The canonical location for service files in Debian is `/usr/lib/systemd/system/`.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Bug#992465

- Bug#987989

- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/d70caa69c64b124e3611c967cfab93aef48346d8

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/08/msg00275.html

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag