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Bug#848993: RFS: llmnrd/0.2-1 [ITP]



On Saturday 24 December 2016 11:38:01 Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:41:29PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Friday 23 December 2016 14:46:53 Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > > You use DAEMON_OPTS in the default file, while sysvinit seems to
> > > be standardizing on DAEMON_ARGS .... to avoid the messy work of
> > > later migration of conffile settings you might want to consider
> > > switching to DAEMON_ARGS now before the first version has been
> > > uploaded. You decide.
> > 
> > Hm... Another option would be to use LLMNRD_OPTS. Looks like other
> > daemons in Debian (e.g. ntpd or rsync) use env variable <NAME>_OPTS
> > in /etc/default/<name>.
> > 
> > What do you think about it?
> 
> The reason to use DAEMON_ARGS is that if you ever where to switch
> to init-d-script in the future it would "just work" without
> needing messy conversion handling. Your current init scripts seems
> to already support DAEMON_ARGS already so it would just be a
> case of changing the default file to use DAEMON_ARGS.

Hm... Ok make sense. I removed DAEMON_OPTS from init.d script and added 
DAEMON_ARGS into default file.

> Giving it an even more specialized name lite LLMNRD_OPTS seems
> like you're expecting environment variable leakage between
> different services and that should in my opinion be handled
> by fixing the leakage instead.
> 
> In the end this is all your choice. I've reviewed your existing
> package and is ready to upload as soon as you've decided on
> this matter. Poke me asap and there might still be a theoretical
> chance of making into stretch (although I basically assume it's
> already missed since we need to clear both the NEW queue +
> a 10 day migration time before 5 jan - and I don't expect to see
> 0-day NEW queue handling on christmas).

Half hour ago I uploaded new package to mentors. But it is still not 
there... https://mentors.debian.net/package/llmnrd

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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