Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald > <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > >> <k...@debian.org> > >> > >> wrote: > >> >Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> (2014-05-11): > >> >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in > >> >> an init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a > >> >> non-root process from an init script? > >> > > >> >start-stop-daemon has: > >> > -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] > >> > >> Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD > >> Unices? > > > >Good question and I think the answer is a no. > > > >So… instead of changing the script it may be better to provide a > >systemd unit file for dirmngr, then the script can remain as it is. > > This will also cause double effort since Debian needs special handling > that no other distribution obviously needs.
Could you please explain me how it could cause double effort as the initscript the the dirmngr package is shipping is _already_ debian specific and that I don't see any initscript shipped by upstream in the tarball? The initscript had to be fixed anyway, I could indeed have also added a systemd sevice file but I didn't think it will fit a NMU. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511184846.285c7...@fornost.bigon.be
