Bug#1095068: minetest-server: Please consider reinstating sysvinit script

[Tobias Frost]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 -patch +wontfix
Control: notfound  5.8.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt13-2

(removing tag patch, as there is no patch attached to this bug, nor a reference
to a patch, no the init file in the old package is suitable. Please only set
the tag if you verifified that a patch is indeed a working patch. see the BTS
documentation.)

Hi Matthias,

the upstream package rename provided an unique opportunity to modernize the
packaging. The opportunity allows us to utilize modern systemd facilities,
like utilization of DynamicUser which brings lots of benefits to the service.

Unfortunatly, this makes the old init script incompatible. Updating, if possible
at all, would requite significant effort I prefer to spent elsewhere, and
maintaining will also be non-zero effort.

If you commit to maintain a working init script for luanti (which include
taking care of all reported bugs out of this) please feel free to send one to
the package "orphan-sysvinit-scripts", I have no intentions to re-add a Debian
maintained init script, but of course I cannot speak for Travis, (who did the
heavy lifting for luanti.)

-- 
Cheers,
tobi



Am Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 01:15:24PM +0100 schrieb Matthias Geiger:
> Package: minetest-server
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> X-Debbugs-Cc: werdahias at debian.org
> 
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> Dear maintainer,
> 
> I saw (by chance) that in the latest version of minetest-server the init 
> script was dropped. While most of Debian uses systemd there are still 
> users left (myself included) that run a non-systemd installation. Please 
> consider reinstating the init scipt; I think maintenance-wise this is 
> not a big ask.
> 
> best,
> 
> werdahias
> 
> 
> 
> - -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: init
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages minetest-server depends on:
> ii  adduser              3.137
> ii  init-system-helpers  1.68
> ii  libc6                2.40-6
> ii  libcurl3t64-gnutls   8.11.1-1+b1
> ii  libgcc-s1            14.2.0-16
> ii  libgmp10             2:6.3.0+dfsg-3
> ii  libjsoncpp26         1.9.6-3
> ii  libleveldb1d         1.23-5+b2
> ii  libluajit-5.1-2      2.1.0+openresty20241113-3
> ii  libncursesw6         6.5+20250125-2
> ii  libpq5               17.2-1+b2
> ii  libspatialindex8     2.1.0-1
> ii  libsqlite3-0         3.46.1-1
> ii  libstdc++6           14.2.0-16
> ii  libtinfo6            6.5+20250125-2
> ii  libzstd1             1.5.6+dfsg-2
> ii  minetest-data        5.8.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt13-2
> ii  zlib1g               1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1
> 
> minetest-server recommends no packages.
> 
> minetest-server suggests no packages.
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