Hi Philipp,
Am 21.09.2018 um 18:10 schrieb Philipp Kern:
> On 2018-09-21 14:58, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> thanks for maintaining infinoted.
>>
>> Would you mind if I uploaded an NMU of infinoted just with the patch
>> from this bugreport applied? I verified that the patch works. It's
>> somewhat annoying to not have init system integration of infinoted.
>>
>> I'll go on with an NMU (to delayed-7) if I don't hear back from you.
>
> I'm pretty reluctant to maintain an init script at all and that's the
> primary reason why I haven't merged one - as soon as it's legit to just
> have a systemd service, I'm very happy to add one to the packaging. I
> also think service files should've been submitted upstream and work
> consistently across platforms, which this one won't (due to the
> Debian-specific /etc/default setup, also infinoted.service references an
> ${OPTIONS} that isn't actually set?). It also uses /etc/infinoted for
> variable data (directory owned by the service user to store the key
> material there) but doesn't even put the config file into that directory
> - instead it lives in the non-discoverable /etc/xdg directory. I suppose
> given that it's managed by ucf it's not even a conffile (which is good,
> but again not discoverable).Thanks for commenting. I understand your reasoning that the initscript would belong to upstream. My main motivation for offer an NMU was that I know a few workgroups and collectives who regularly use the infinoted daemon for collaborative work during in-person meetings. For them it's pretty cumbersome to always have to create a systemd service file (or init script) when temporarly setting up the service for the meeting. Since you didn't comment on the bugreport within several years, I assumed that you don't care enough ;) Would you be ok with *just* adding the systemd file to the package for now? I agree that this is not the perfect solution, but it would be a huge step forward. At least with a default Debian installation, one could start using infinioted right after installing the package. > I feel you could feel free to take over the package and if there's > ongoing maintenance/migration work commit to that? Rather than doing an > NMU for a wishlist bug? That'd be fine with me. Unfortunately I don't have the capacity to maintain another package and since I use infinoted very rarely I don't consider myself a good candidate for maintainership either. Thanks again for maintaining the package, it's much appreciated! For those who care about this bug being fixed: at least now you got feedback and have an idea how to move on :) Cheers jonas
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