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spec: system services' service description files have constrained names
authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:33:41 +0000 (14:33 +0100)
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:06:19 +0000 (11:06 +0100)
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608
Reviewed-by: Chengwei Yang <chengwei.yang@intel.com>
doc/dbus-specification.xml

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         names.
       </para>
 
+      <para>
+        On the well-known system bus, the name of a service description file
+        must be its well-known name plus <literal>.service</literal>,
+        for instance
+        <literal>com.example.ConfigurationDatabase.service</literal>.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        On the well-known session bus, services should follow the same
+        service description file naming convention as on the system bus,
+        but for backwards compatibility they are not required to do so.
+      </para>
+
       <para>
         [FIXME the file format should be much better specified than "similar to
         .desktop entries" esp. since desktop entries are already