Bug#827090: RFS: runit/2.1.2-4 ITP
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:36:23AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:18:04PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > > > + * New maintainer
> > > > did Gerrit asked for help?
> > > > stepping in as maintainer needs an RFH or Orphan package.
> > > > (well, Gerrit was fine on giving up some packages IIRC)
> > >
> > > Gerrit gave up fgetty (which I picked up), so I think he will be okay
> > > with this. But explicit is better then implicit.
> >
> > Hi Gianfranco, Dmitry,
> >
> > actually I'm not okay with anyone taking over the runit packge. And I
> > don't see why runit needs an update in Debian. The few bugs are known
> > and can be worked around if necessary.
>
> Well, in current state, runit is not init system and using it is
> rather complicated -- sysadmin have to manually copy files from
> /usr/share/doc/ into /etc. It writes files under /etc, which may be
> read-only. Using it under sysv control means that getty is not runit
> service. It provides only tty5 runscript.
>
> My changes addresses all of above to provide something, that would
> work out-of-box. Would you be interested in taking them?
I've been there, done that. Many years ago, if interested search
history for the runit-init package. Today I don't think runit is the
right choice for integrating as init system into Debian. Take a look at
s6, nosh, or perp maybe?
Although I thank you for your efforts and interest in runit, I'm happy
with the runit package in Debian as is.
Regards, Gerrit
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