On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 12:08:42PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 01:47 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Especially you two shouldn't be fighting. As far as I know, Svante is > > somewhat involved with eudev maintenance in Devuan (done mostly by parazyd, > > though), while Marco has a great wealth of udev experience. > > Well I did the work an parazyd did commit my patches and issued builds. > Question > is: Who did do the real work?
Thanks for correction. I made the blind assumption that the Maintainer: field has at least some accuracy. I'm used to Debian workflows, not Devuan's. If the whole credit goes to you, good! > > eudev is currently not needed for Debian, but it's good to have ready and > > tested packages we can import when/if udev becomes systemd only (which can > > happen at any moment as its upstream we don't control). > > I really doubt Debian would accept eudev and elogind into their repositories. Actually, Simon McVittie described a proposal that KatolaZ opined as not merely acceptable but "a great solution". It would allow every Debian package that currently depends on libpam-systemd to be usable on Devuan without even recompiling, much less a sourceful change -- all while handling future compat breaks sanely. I'll see how I can assist. As for eudev, the only group who can deny a package into the archive are the ftpmasters, although being useful wrt dependencies is another matter. If you think strongly about having such standby package ready, I can sponsor it into experimental -- on the other hand, unless you can show some benefit, I strongly would advise against having it in unstable, as it'd complicate the lives of udev maintainers for no clear gain. They promised to not make udev systemd only, and I see no reason for them to renege -- the decision belongs to a person employed by Red Hat, who could make a future release require systemd. If that happens, well, _then_ it'd be time to put eudev into unstable. Meow! -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory prices.