reopen 422139
thanks

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:18:03AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>#422139: Please remove runit from the Depends field of git-daemon-run,
>which was filed against the git-daemon-run package.
>
>It has been closed by Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reply to [EMAIL 
>PROTECTED]).


>On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:08:53PM +0200, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> >Please try 'apt-get install --reinstall runit', and check again whether 
>> >the git-daemon service is activated properly.  If not, please post the 
>> >output of
>> 
>> You don't get the point - I don't want to have runit installed at all. Why 
>> should another package be installed to do what the /etc/init.d/git-daemon 
>> file and sysvinit package would already provide on their own? runit would 
>> be superfluous.
>> 
>> Honestly, I don't see the need for the git-daemon-run package at all.
>> 
>> git-core should provide /etc/init.d/git-daemon, and have a 
>> /etc/default/git-daemon file with some kind of flag to specify if the 
>> daemon is actually run. Just like many other packages:
>[...]
>
>Hi Mark, I got your point, but happen to not agree with it.  Noone
>forces you to install the git-daemon-run package, the git-daemon program
>itself is in the git-core package.  To enable the service for you, you
>can simply put it into the inetd configuration, or write a short and
>simple init script, as you like.  I personally feel confident that the
>setup of the service as done through the git-daemon-run package is
>superior, and support exactly this.
>
>If this doesn't satisfy you, you can create a git-daemon-sysvinit
>package that provides the init script and support it, or get some Debian
>developer to do so.

Would you agree to supply such a binary package in the git-core source
package? In that case, I can prepare a patch to the current source
package enabling it to *really* close this bug.

Cheers,
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