Bug#997835: you could add powerdns init script
Matthew Vernon
matthew at debian.org
Tue Oct 26 10:15:39 BST 2021
Hi,
On 25/10/2021 17:21, Mathieu ROY wrote:
> powerdns packaged removed then working init script. You might consider
> including them in your package.
> I was about to send you a working version but the debian developer in
> charge of powerdns, apparently tied to powerdns development, made me
> reconsider using this software, since apparently making it easy to
> maintain is perceived as a felony.
Thanks for the report. I would happily take a patch incorporating the
powerdns init script, especially if you can confirm it works on a
testing system.
[Otherwise I can presumably find it myself, but I can't really test it
and it's obviously more work for me ;-)]
Apropos bugs 997054 and 997056, I think the maintainer overreacted, but
I think that they felt that your reference to 964139 was an (implicit)
threat to raise the question of the powerdns init script with the
technical committee. I don't think that's a particularly helpful line to
take with maintainers who want to drop an init script - asking them to
reconsider or otherwise send the script to orphan-sysvinit-scripts is a
good approach, but there's enough lingering hurt around init systems
that anything that looks like a threat is unlikely to be productive.
In any case, I see nothing in Chris' email that suggests you can't
provide the init script to the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package.
Regards,
Matthew
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