On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Pierre Habouzit <madco...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:26:18PM +0000, roucaries bastien wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Pierre Habouzit <madco...@debian.org> wrote:
>> > # and to be frank I believe this bug is just plain invalid
>> > severity 511687 normal
>> > thanks
>>
>> No the bug is not really invalid it shoke insserver because
>> git-daemon-run is a binary file, it does not crash but report loundly
>> that it can not read the file git-daemon-run.
>>
>> Ok it is not a bug per se, but admin could personnalize init.d script.

Yes he could but during install it will shoke innserv. And I dislike
to shoke inserv. using a script will also allow to set init priority
of this stuff, but i do not really know if runit use it.

> So ? The fact that it is a symlink doesn't prevent you from changing it
> to a script.

Nothing will send a patch i suppose But somebody beat me :)

>> > No it doesn't _need_ to, the very standard way to use git-daemon is
>> > usually through a super-server. git-daemon-run is just a way to enable
>> > git-daemon into runit, which is the packager choice and has nothing to
>> > do with the policy as-is.
>>
>> Yes but put a symlink to a binary file in /etc/init.d is not really
>> nice. According to section 9.3, /etc/init.d MUST be script.
>> symlink is bad usage at least.
>
> I'm not sure it must, but what it should and does not, is declaring
> /etc/init.d/git-daemon as:
>  (1) a conffile
>  (2) not remove it on removal
>  (3) not overwrite it on install

Or use cyril brulebois patch :)

>> I believe that this package provide the standalone daemon because it
>> wrote to /etc/init.d :(
>
> You believe or believe*d* ? because afaict git-daemon is part of
> git-core.

I believed :) I have apt-get --purge remove it :)

Will improve cyril patch

Regards



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