Runit-services package - looking for comments/review

[Martin Steigerwald]

Matthew Vernon - 19.02.22, 21:15:30 CET:
> On 03/02/2022 22:58, Lorenzo wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:16:50 +0100
> > Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote
> > 
> >> […]
> >> 
> >>> * doesn't use ucf to register conffiles in /etc : ucf works with
> >>> files but not with directories, and I foresee other problems that
> >>> makes the tool unfitted for handling service directories as
> >>> conffiles.. so I had to reinvent the wheel :(
> >> 
> >> So you implemented your own approach to register configuration
> >> files
> >> or don't you register configuration files at all
> > 
> > I implemented a very simple flag-file approach to
> > register/deregister
> > a service directory as runit-services's conffile.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree with Martin that "ucf" is the Debian tool for
> managing configuration files such as init scripts; and that that's
> probably what you should be using.

Just for the record: I did not state any opinion about whether to use 
"ucf" or not. I don't have one at the moment for this case.

-- 
Martin