[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1117211: firewalld: It would be nice to have a service for apt-cacher-ng. XML file included.

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, 1 May 2026 21:40:07 +0200
Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> 
> thanks for your contribution!
> 
> Would you mind raising this issue with the apt-cacher-ng maintainer?
> (in CC)
> 
> I try to avoid patches to firewalld and the addition of a rather
> Debian specific service like apt-cacher-ng is unlikely to be accepted
> by firewalld upstream. So I would prefer if this integration is
> shipped by the apt-cacher-ng package instead.

Whatever works for all of you.

OK, non-maintainer ignorance at play here. Shipping this with ACNG
works if firewalld is already installed. The ACNG installer looks for
firewalld, and if it finds it, installs the file. I am assuming that if
the installer doesn't find firewalld, it refrains from installing the
file.

However, if the user installs ACNG, and then later firewalld, is there a
mechanism to install this file? I ran into a similar situation with
libvirt, and had to do a "apt reinstall firewalld" to get the virtual
networking and firewalld to play well.



> 
> For the apt-cacher-ng maintainers: The attached file would have to be 
> installed as /usr/lib/firewalld/services/apt-cacher-ng.xml
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:20:43 -0600 Charles Curley 
> <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > Package: firewalld
> > Version: 2.3.1-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescurley at charlescurley.com
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > file apt-cacher-ng.xml:
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <service version="0.01">
> >   <short>apt-cacher Next Generation</short>
> >   <description>Apt-Cacher Next Generation (NG) is a caching proxy
> > for downloading packages from Debian-style software repositories
> > (or possibly from other types). See the package description for
> > more information.</description> <port port="3142" protocol="tcp"/>
> > </service>
> > 
> >   



-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/