transmission-daemon does not launch correctly when using systemd

[sandrotosi]

Hello,
as reported in Debian as http://bugs.debian.org/854856:

it appears the systemd service file for transmission-daemon does not pass a configuration directory when launching the daemon, which will try to use its home directory /home/transmission-daemon, which doesn't exist and cannot be created.

The old init.d file sourced /etc/default/transmission-daemon which defaulted the configuration directory to /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

could you have a look at this? thanks!

[mikedld]

I'm a bit confused. Looking into transmission_2.92-2.debian.tar.xz, and transmission-daemon.postinst in particular, debian-transmission user should have a home directory of "/var/lib/transmission-daemon", not "/home/transmission-daemon".

And then, different distributions use different default configuration directories for the daemon (e.g. Gentoo uses "/var/lib/transmission/config"). How do you propose we fix this?..

[mikedld]

Closing for the lack of response.

[Scondo]

transmission-daemon.postinst have no way to fix already present transmission-daemon user.

So this will be common bug with update from 2.84 when homedir changed.