Re: Debian & sysvinit and more..
I no longer maintain sysvinit--Bruce Perens does now. You'll want
to talk with him. (A few sysvinit-related discussions started last
week; it would be good for you to participate in them. Are you on
the debian-devel mailing list? If not, ask bruce@pixar.com to add
you.)
Could someone mail the latest copy of the Guidelines to Miquel? (As
an aside, are they available anywhere on ftp.debian.org? I don't think
they are yet; or, at least, I haven't moved anything into the archive.)
In short: We'd love to have you involved in the Debian Project. I know
we were looking for a maintainer for inn a few weeks ago. I'm not sure
if we found one. Ian?
Thanks,
Ian Murdock.
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering a new release of my sysvinit (the last
> official one was 2.50, though debian and Slackware use 2.57).
> I've converted my system to Debian a couple of weeks ago and
> we also install it on customers machines. (We used to have
> our own distribution, but it the maintenance was too much work).
>
> Now since I use and support Debian, I'd like to make it
> as "debianized" as possible. However, you are the maintainer
> of debian-sysvinit. What would be wise? I have already
> converted all paths to the debian/FSSTND ones, and I will
> include the Debian /etc directory stucture instead of the
> old examples. But should I already include the debian.* files
> or should the package maintainer do that, so that my package
> stays generic and there is a well defined "base".
>
> The same goes for minicom, actually.
>
> Other questions. :)
> Since we install Debian on our own systems and on servers for
> customers, we need a stable server distribution. I've made
> Debian packages for sendmail-8.7.1 and INN-1.4UNOFF3 that run
> pretty well. (And sendmail can be autoconfigured). I am
> also considering making a package for apache since we also
> install that on most systems, and a new UUCP package since
> I hate to have all uucp commands in /usr/sbin while even the
> FSSTND recommends /usr/lib/uucp (which is also a nice place
> to put the uucp maintenance and reports scripts we use).
>
> Could you point me to documentation or a URL where I can
> find info on how to contribute this back into Debian
> (if people are interested ofcourse).
>
> Thanks, Mike.
> --
> + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a |
> | miquels@cistron.nl (SP5) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal |
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>
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