[chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian

[Ian Jackson]

Andreas Messer writes ("Re: [chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian"):
> Any patches, help or git pull requests are welcome. I also have the feeling,
> that the current Devuan elogind package repo is not in the best shape
> regarding its structure. It was actually my first package and I'm still 
> a beginner in this.

Your package pretty good to me.  I reviewed the packaging pretty
carefully and everything was as I would have expected, or else had an
explanation.

> I'm currently going to clarify with the Devuan guys, how the packaging 
> workflow shall be for future devuan version, one of them has clear idea of
> this but i did not understand it yet. In parallel I'll start
> a small guide document on how a package repo should be structured 
> and handled. Mostly to remind my self of that but maybe this is usefull
> for others as well

I think that for good sysvinit support in Debian it is important that
not only the sysvinit package is in shape (I'm glad to see that people
are working on that) but also that the desktop support is in good
enough shape that people don't find the dependencies keep pulling in
systemd.

To fix that we need to upload elogind and/or consolekit to Debian,
figure out what the dependencies should look like in all those
packages, and file bugs in Debian (where we can't use virtual
packages).  We want to get all of that into the Debian freeze.

Peter already gave some instructions on how to test this and we have a
first cut of a package, but there are still some problems and things
we don't know how to do, as discussed earlier.

Is there anyone here with the kind of desktoppy knowledge who could
debug this ?  Or maybe who has some contacts (within Devuan or Debian
or elsewhere) ?

Ian.

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