On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:17:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Sigh. And now I get to repeat what I said in a private mail to Marco > when I didn't realise he'd Cc'ed me to a message on a mailing list. Is > a little "AJ: Cc'ed to make sure you get this" really too much to ask? > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:32:08PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I discussed with the xinetd and rlinetd maintainers about how to kill > > the netbase package and allow users to really choose their favourite > > inet superserver. Please comment. > > The plan hasn't changed: "netbase" needs to be removed so we can avoid > requiring inetd on all systems, update-inetd needs to be rewritten and > it's syntax changed to solve a whole bunch of old outstanding bugs, > and packages using inetd need to be changed to use the new update-inetd > syntax and depend on "net-common" or similar. These things are all best > done at the same time. Just for the sake of getting it out there: during an IRC discussion I hammered out a prototype replacement for the current update-inetd system in a few dozen lines of perl. It's sitting in http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/inetd/ for those who want to take a look at it; it's kinda like update-modules (the current update-inetd is more like update-alternatives). It's one of two or three possible approaches that have come up so far; it's probably the simplest by a large margin, I don't know whether it has any significant issues or not. Marco said he'd run up a similar prototype of one of the others at some point... [This is a *prototype*, it is not suitable for deployment in its current form. I estimate it would take an afternoon or so to rewrite it properly and in a manner that makes it simple for maintainers of inetd packages to deal with it. I'm not particularly committed to Config::General, but I don't see any reason not to use it, either.] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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