Changes from the review

debian/control

@@ -2,19 +2,20 @@ Source: vzlogger
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Joachim Zobel <[email protected]>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12), pkg-config (>= 0.25), 
- libjson-c-dev (>= 0.9), libcurl4-openssl-dev (>= 7.19),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12), pkgconf, 
+ libjson-c-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev,
  libmicrohttpd-dev (>= 0.4.6), libsml-dev (>= 1.0), cmake, libsasl2-dev,
  libssl-dev, libgcrypt-dev, libgnutls28-dev, uuid-dev, libunistring-dev,
  libgmock-dev, libgtest-dev, pandoc, libmosquitto-dev
-Standards-Version: 4.6.1
+Standards-Version: 4.6.2
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Homepage: http://wiki.volkszaehler.org/software/controller/vzlogger
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger
 
 Package: vzlogger
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, libsml1
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
 Description: program for logging measurements to a volkszaehler.org middleware
  vzlogger...

debian/rules

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- -DBUILD_TEST=off
 endif
 
+override_dh_installsystemd:
+	# stop the service during install, see man dh_installsystemd
+	dh_installsystemd --no-restart-after-upgrade
+
 ifneq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 override_dh_auto_test: ;
 endif

debian/vzlogger.init

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ DAEMON=/usr/bin/vzlogger
 DAEMON_ARGS="-d"          # Arguments to run the daemon with
 #PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
-USER=vzlogger
-GROUP=vzlogger
+USER=_vzlogger
+GROUP=_vzlogger
 
 # Exit if the package is not installed
 [ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

debian/vzlogger.postinst

@@ -4,15 +4,20 @@ set -e
 
 case "$1" in
     configure)
-    if ! id vzlogger > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+    if id vzlogger > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+		# maintain compatibility with existing native installations
+		usermod -l _vzlogger vzlogger	
+		groupmod --new-name _vzlogger vzlogger
+	fi
+    if ! id _vzlogger > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
         adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --home /nonexistent \
             --group --disabled-password --shell /bin/false \
-            vzlogger
-        usermod -a -G dialout vzlogger
+            _vzlogger
+        usermod -a -G dialout _vzlogger
     fi
 
     touch /var/log/vzlogger.log
-    chown vzlogger:adm /var/log/vzlogger.log
+    chown _vzlogger:adm /var/log/vzlogger.log
     ;;
 
     abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)

debian/vzlogger.postrm

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ set -e
 case "$1" in
     purge)
     rm -f /var/log/vzlogger.log*
-    deluser --quiet --system vzlogger
-    delgroup --quiet --system vzlogger
     ;;
 
     remove|abort-install|abort-upgrade|disappear)

debian/vzlogger.service

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ After=network.target ntp.service
 
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vzlogger -c /etc/vzlogger.conf
-User=vzlogger
-Group=vzlogger
+User=_vzlogger
+Group=_vzlogger
 ExecReload=
 StandardOutput=null