Re: Proposal to remove dnlib, dsniff and inetsim from Debian
On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 06:29:03PM +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-11-06 at 09:08 -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> > > inetsim for being RC-buggy due to lacking systemd unit [3]
> >
> > I'm starting to do Q&A on this one, probably we can save it.
>
> If someone is willing to implement the systemd unit, that'd be awesome.
I did start looking at this last weekend, but hadn't completely assured
myself about its internal lifecycle management before deciding how it
should best be supervised and then I had doubts about bundling service
integration at all.
The inetsim package does not provide services that a real production or
end user host would need. I suspect anyone wanting to use this would
orchestrate it in some application-specific test harness, perhaps on a
VM or in a network namespace.
One approach might be to remove the service integration and suggest
users run it explicitly. We could come back at a later time with a
well thought-out recipe.
But it has a higher popcon than I would expect so perhaps the service
integration is useful to people after all.
Just my musings.
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