-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Tscharner wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > I'm the maintainer of the CVSNT package. This is a better replacement > for CVS and just like CVS it can work as server or client. > > One of the enhancements (on the server side) was replacing the old > directory based file locks with a so-called lock server, which handled > all the locking on a per file basis. What I did until now was to start > this cvslockd daemon in an init script regardless whether the user used > CVSNT as client or server. > > In the next few weeks should now come out a new version upstream and I > updated my package, fixed the bugs and I also want to prevent that > cvslockd is started every time. So I created a configuration file > /etc/defaults/cvsnt where an environment variable defines whether or not > the daemon gets started. I figured that there are probably more client > users than server users and set the default to no longer start cvslockd. > > My questions: > 1) Is this change of behavior desirable/do-able? > 2) Is /etc/default/cvsnt the right place to turn on/off the daemon at all? > 3) How shall I inform the server users that they know that they have to > configure the file to get the lock daemon started again? > > TIA and best regards > Andreas for 3) - may be, Debian.NEWS and/or debconf message in postinst?
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