On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:52:15AM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > On 02/01/2025 21:55, Jon wrote: > > The recent upload of git 2.47.1-1 removed the git-daemon-sysvinit > > package which contained the glue to run git-daemon from sysvinit. The > > git-daemon binary itself is shipped into the regular git package so > > all thats needed is the init script. > > I've had a bit of a look at this, and I think it's more that the git-daemon > is now considered obsolete and insecure, and we don't generally want people > to be running it. Hence its removal (there's not an equivalent systemd unit > to run it, for example).
This is my understanding as well. At the very least, if people want to provide git protocol access, they should/need to do more than "just run git-daemon". Chris