[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] RFA: cgmanager -- Central cgroup manager daemon

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 04:47:17PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:26:46 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I'd like to pass cgmanager along to a new maintainer, if anyone has
> > an interest in keeping it up.  Upstream (mainly myself) is essentially
> > no longer active, as its use has been supplanted by lxcfs.
> > 
> > If noone has need of it, then perhaps removing it will be the better
> > option.  I will continue to maintain the package in the short term,
> > until either someone takes over or I decide that it can be removed
> > without adversely affecting anyone.
> > 
> 
> I guess the main reason for keeping cgmanager in Debian is to keep
> systemd-shim, thus logind under sysvinit functional.
> So CCing the sysvinit maintainers. Maybe they have an interest in taking
> over the package.

For what it's worth, we had retired cgmanager upstream, but I'm now
considering either picking it back up, or actually starting from scratch
(mainly to drop the 'libnih' dependency which is pretty problematic)

> There is elogind [1], which is a standalone logind implementation which
> doesn't require systemd-shim and cgmanager.
> This might be an alternative approach to provide the logind interfaces
> under sysvinit.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> [1] https://github.com/wingo/elogind
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