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

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