Bug#695231: ITA: libcgroup -- Library to control and monitor control
* Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr> wrote:
> retitle 695231 ITA: libcgroup -- Library to control and monitor control
> groups
> owner 695231 !
>
> Hi Jon,
> I'm intending to take libcgroup over. Recently I have a lot of work, so
> I will be able to work on this only around Xmas.
>
> Will you sponsor the future uploads or, even better, will you allow me
> to do it directly as I'm DM?
Absolutely, I love this plan! I'll sponsor a few uploads and if things look
good then it's all yours.
Here is some fair warning: libcgroup is a bit of a nightmare at the moment.
Both from a packaging standpoint (the initscripts are no longer installed), and
also from an upstream development standpoint (at least as it relates to debian
packaging). Specifically, upstream seems to target fedora (and hence systemd)
for the most part. Since it's a system-level library, the differences in
development environment make for some surprising headaches. There are also some
inherent race conditions in the existing implementation. I feel obligated to
mention these issues so that you know what you're getting into. It is these
additional issues and time requirements that make the package too much for me at
the moment.
That said, I'm more than willing to advise and help out when/where I can.
Packaging development is maintained in collab-maint on alioth using git. The
entire history is there. So git-buildpackage is all you need.
If you're still interested, I will forward the relevant email threads I have had
with Serge - he has been maintaining this package in Ubuntu. There are some
differences there, and I encourage you to compare. Ideally we could create
a debian package that Ubuntu could merge without modification, but there is some
work to get to that point.
Let me know what you decided, and thanks for the interest!
--
Jon
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