Package: busybox Version: 1:1.10.2-2 Severity: wishlist I'm working on another thin client framework (like LTSP) called TCOS [1]
In past I have used tinylogin [2] and now I want to upload my software to Debian. Tinylogin is no longer mantained and is merged with busybox. My thin clients need 2 applets (CONFIG_LOGIN and CONFIG_GETTY) to protect ttys. Thin client works inside initramfs. Enabling these configs only grows 12Kb: $ du -h /bin/busybox /tmp/paquete/tmp/bin/busybox 372K /bin/busybox 384K /tmp/paquete/tmp/bin/busybox I have uploaded another new packages (that my project need) you can see all in TCOS_into_Debian Roadmap at [3] Another projects like mindi use another busybox compilation [4], I talk some time ago with Andree Leidenfrost <and...@d.o> and he want to merge it. I think that busybox mantainers could merge mindi-busybox requirements or generate more bin packages from the same sources. Today busybox sources are 2 times (or more) in Debian repositories [5]. Only providing one source package can made the compilation more simple with a new upstream version or security fixes. Thanks for your work at Debian. Greetings [1] http://www.tcosproject.org [2] http://tinylogin.busybox.net [3] http://wiki.tcosproject.org/Tcos_Into_Debian [5] http://packages.debian.org/sid/mindi-busybox [5] http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mindi-busybox/ and http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/busybox/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
