On 28/10/17 03:45, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> I'm the original poster of the thread renamed "Runit for Devuan", and I
> don't understand this email at all. What does a debian bug about s6
> have to do with my offer to be one of a two person team to bring a
> runit package to Devuan?


You said

> > 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.

The Debian bug I quoted was a RFP (request for pakage) for s6, it was
the closest I could find to a s6 package.  Since then I've found:

 https://github.com/lwf/s6-packaging

Which is the stuff necessary for a s6 .deb

Note that, as far as I know, this doesn't provide enough stuff for using
s6 as pid 1.

> By the way, anyone here good at Devuan packaging and also would like a
> runit package? I could probably put together a Devuan/runit Vagrant
> file, from which we could make a package.

You don't have to make a runit package for Debian/Devuan --  it exists
already.

What is missing is the runit-init package, i.e. runit as pid 1, which
was removed as nobody had the time to fix bug 861536.

I guess Devuan could just live with the bug, or declare it fixed by
documenting it.

Or someone who was interested could fix it and get runit-init back into
Debian (and, therefore) Devuan.