[tor-bugs] #30797 [Core Tor/Tor]: Stop shipping an abandoned systemd script?

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#30797: Stop shipping an abandoned systemd script?
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 Reporter:  arma          |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
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Comment (by intrigeri):

 It certainly would be interesting to understand why tor packagers for
 major Linux distros seem to have independently reached the conclusion that
 maintaining their own unit file is a better solution, for themselves and
 their users, than collaboratively maintaining this unit file upstream.

 But until there is clear interest to do this work, IMO we should not be
 distributing a file that's unmaintained: doing so is a disservice to our
 users — unless the file is actually already working perfectly for some
 relevant usecases, e.g. might it be that Arch Linux ships it as-is, and
 that's why nobody modifies it?

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