Re: Bug#422139: Please supply a sysvinit script

[David Schmitt <david@schmitt.edv-bus.at>]

Hi,

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > Gerrit Pape writes ("Re: Bug#422139: Please supply a sysvinit script"):
>
> > > A separate binary package named git-daemon-sysv or so, that conflicts
> > > and provides git-daemon-run, is the way I'd do the integration.
>
> > Personally I think the profusion of tiny packages is not all that nice.
> > It would be better to solve that problem (that the administrator should
> > be able to choose whether to run the daemon) with a debconf question.
>
> > I would agree with Kurt's comments about the separation between
> > packages.
>
> Currently, git-daemon is in git-core.  I don't think a debconf prompt for
> every installer of git-core would be a good idea.  Most people are only
> going to be interested in the client.

As a sysadmin I'd prefer a git-core/git-remote-access-methods split 
where the former contains all "client" stuff and the latter may post a 
debconf question which services to run and which daemonizer to use.

But I'm just a single sysadmin and programmer.



Regards, David