Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the reconf-inetd package.
The package description is: reconf-inetd is a dpkg-trigger script that updates the configuration of the internet superserver. It is a replacement for update-inetd, as per DEP9. . If the above does not mean anything to you, then you most certainly do not need this package. I do not have the time to be the sole driver of DEP9, and its implementation, reconf-inetd. reconf-inetd is pretty much complete, it works, and it comes with dozens of system tests. Remaining work includes: - port to python 3 - use of a Debian python helper to manage byte-compilation - file bug reports to the reverse dependencies of update-inetd to migrate to reconf-inetd, as described in DEP9 (which also describes how to prepare patches) The last item is a lot of work, and will require interacting with lots of other maintainers via the BTS. The adopter must know python (reconf-inetd is a native package), have packaging experience, and lots of motivation. I'm not sure anymore whether DEP9 (ie. replacing update-inetd with reconf-inetd) is worthwhile, because inetd (which is what update/reconf-inetd configure) will eventually be deprecated by systemd and upstart. Having said that, inetd is unlikely to vanish anytime now, and in the meantime update-inetd is buggy and has 120k installations. I'll be around to sponsor (if necessary) & answer questions, but will otherwise not be actively involved. Links: - functional description of reconf-inetd & plan of migration away from update-inetd: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep9/ - pts & git: http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/reconf-inetd.html http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/reconf-inetd.git;a=summary - vaguely related talk at fosdem (includes a description of the reconf-inetd system tests) http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/How_to_replace_a_legacy_tool_with_100k_installations.webm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
