Bug#422139: Please supply a sysvinit script
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.
Gerrit's approach, while proliferating small packages, has the advantage
of supporting the standard semantics of "install the daemon package and
the daemon is started by default." A possible alternative would be to
move git-daemon to a separate git-daemon package which installs an init
script by default, and then have the installation of git-daemon-run
disable that init script, but that requires migration for existing users
that may be rather annoying. The approach Gerrit proposes doesn't have
the migration problem.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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