Hi Glenn, hi Helmut. Thus wrote Glenn Strauss: > ackn. I'll restore that and submit to RFS next week. > Thank you for the report. > > The removal was done on bad advice given by lintian. > Add this to the list of bad advice from lintian.
Thus wrote Helmut Grohne: > Former lighttpd maintainer here. I can give some background. > > [...] > > A long time ago, lighttpd used to "Depends: lsb-base" as its init > script sources some helper file. Back when I was a lighttpd > maintainer, I added a systemd-sysv alternative to express that if you > happen to run systemd, you don't need lsb-base, because you wouldn't > use the init script. Thank you for the ACK and quick reaction, Glenn, and thank you for the context, Helmut. > I think we could reasonably remove the entire dependency instead. > Whilst lighttpd integrates with systemd, there are more ways to run it > (e.g. in an application container it may be started directly). Other > packages such as apache2 do not depend on systemd-sysv either. As > a result, I recommend dropping the dependency. I agree from a practical standpoint -- lighty works very well as a managed service à la runit, without the SysV init machinery or scripts. But deciding on whether this is reason enough to drop the dependency altogether appears (to me at least) to be more of a policy question than a technical question. And I can't really comment usefully on those. Cheers, Marco
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