On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 15/11/2017 à 16:21, KatolaZ a écrit : >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:14:37PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: >>> >>> On 15/11/17 15:30, Sam Protsenko wrote: >>>> >>>> Recently "libreswan" package was added to Debian: [1]. But it only >>>> contains systemd init script and lacks sysvinit script. Corresponding >>>> bug was reported to Debian bug tracking system: [2]. But libreswan >>>> maintainer refuses to include sysvinit script to his package >>> >>> What Daniel Kahn Gillmor actually said was: >>> >>>> If anyone wants to propose specific patches to the debian packaging to >>>> either have the main libreswan package automatically support sysvinit >>>> (or any other initsystem) or produce a libreswan-sysvinit (or >>>> libreswan-runit, etc) binary package, and that the patch author >>>> volunteers to help test and maintain that system integration work over >>>> time, i'd be open to reviewing and incorporating reasonable changes into >>>> the debian packaging. >>> >>> Which seems pretty reasonable to me. >>> >>> >> So it would be better if Sam Protsenko offered to help the Debian >> maintainer in including and testing the scripts for sysvinit. >> > Apparently Kahn Gillmor requires more: he requires the commitment of a > person as a quasi-maintainer to do the job of maintaining the init scripts > for the package on the long term. This means Debian maintainers are no > longer in charge of maintaining init files other than systemd's. I doubt we > could see one of these maintainers accept to maintain sysvinit scripts and > ask the users to take care themself of maintaining systemd init files. >
Yes, I tend to agree with you. Good news is, as I said earlier, sysvinit script from upstream libreswan works just fine. I doubt it'll take some hard work to maintain it. More like desire :) > Didier > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
