Bug#1091978: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Please take over git-daemon-sysvinit

[Matthew Vernon]

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Hi,


On 02/01/2025 21:55, Jon wrote:

> The recent upload of git 2.47.1-1 removed the git-daemon-sysvinit
> package which contained the glue to run git-daemon from sysvinit. The
> git-daemon binary itself is shipped into the regular git package so
> all thats needed is the init script.

I've had a bit of a look at this, and I think it's more that the 
git-daemon is now considered obsolete and insecure, and we don't 
generally want people to be running it. Hence its removal (there's not 
an equivalent systemd unit to run it, for example).

So I'm inclined to close this bug; if you want to argue that the 
git-daemon isn't obsolete and should be restored, I think you should 
reassign this to the git package and try and persuade the git maintainers.

Is that OK?

Regards,

Matthew