On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:38:27 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 04:18:12PM -0400, zap wrote:
> > I only wish runit-init was still on the debian repo. or in the
> > devuan repo at least...
>
> It was kicked out from stretch because something bad happened to its
> maintainer (he still hasn't recovered and then he'll probably have
> more important things to do) -- and no one volunteered to fix the RC
> bug. I did even ask here on this list, but alas, I did not help
> either.
>
> No one has stepped up to fix runit-init and restore it since then.

U mean runit's author/upstream maintainer, or do you mean Debian's
maintainer for runit? Where does this information come from? I haven't
read any such thing. The last time I downloaded, compiled and installed
runit it worked just fine. Where did you read about this problem with
the (which) maintainer?

If there's a problem with Debian's runit maintainer, no sweat:
Pair me up with somebody who is good with making packages, and
we'll create a Devuan runit package much better than Debian's old
one (which was kind of difficult the last time I tried it).

If runit's author/upstream author has had bad stuff happen to him to th
extent that runit isn't trusted anymore, s6 is a fairly close
replacement: A little more complex and a little more capable. AFAIK
s6's maintainer is on the job every day improving s6, and once again,
someone who knows how to build Devuan package plus me plus a little bit
of guidance from s6' upstream would produce a Devuan package.

Who on this list is an apt packaging ninja and wants to work on this
with me?

SteveT

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