Deploy connman from Debian repo

Feature Requests
1

connman.service is executing a customized network start script

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl cat connman.service
# /lib/systemd/system/connman.service
[Unit]
Description=Connman connection service
After=dbus.service network-pre.target wpa_supplicant.service
Wants=network.target remote-fs-pre.target
Before=remote-fs-pre.target network.target

[Service]
Type=dbus
BusName=net.connman
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/connman.prefs
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
ExecStart = /usr/bin/start-network
ExecStopPost = /bin/sleep 2
StandardOutput=null

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Why don’t you use the service file delivered by package connman_1.36-2.2+deb11u1_armhf.deb?

[Unit]
Description=Connection service
DefaultDependencies=false
Conflicts=shutdown.target
RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/connman
After=dbus.service network-pre.target systemd-sysusers.service
Before=network.target multi-user.target shutdown.target
Wants=network.target

[Service]
Type=dbus
BusName=net.connman
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/connmand -n
StandardOutput=null
CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_ADMIN CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE CAP_NET_RAW CAP_SYS_TIME CAP_SYS_MODULE
ProtectHome=true
ProtectSystem=full

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

With this connman deployment usage of iwd fails.

Regards
Thomas

2

We don’t use the Debian systemd unit because we package and maintain ConnMan downstream.

As explained on GitHub, if you wish to use iwd you can use an equivs package. Further, the Debian version of ConnMan doesn’t support iwd.