From: Christian Strasser <christian@avr-fun.de>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git install crashed nearly whole System
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:50:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <967d6a889f52ba0c4228264650a549bbbcbb5fea.camel@avr-fun.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFOMylgx9paP5anv@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
Hello all,
Thanks a lot for your effort. :-)
Greetings,
Christian
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 17:24 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-03-18 at 17:00:04, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 04:33:52PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > > If everything's working for you, there's no need to change
> > > it. It's
> > > _possible_ to install git-all and not have this problem, but
> > > because of
> > > the way modern versions of Debian and the packages in question
> > > are
> > > configured it ends up tending to have this problem by default.
> > >
> > > In this case, it may be that git-daemon is installed but not
> > > configured
> > > to start, or it may have been removed when you reinstalled GNOME
> > > since
> > > it's not a hard dependency.
> >
> > Yeah. I think fundamentally this is a packaging issue. It looks
> > like
> > "git-daemon-*" has been downgraded to "Suggests" in Debian
> > unstable. It
> > looks like this was done in 1:2.26.0-2 last April. From the
> > changelog:
> >
> > * debian/control: downgrade Recommends by git-all on git-
> > daemon-run
> > to Suggests. The git-all package is a "batteries included" full
> > installation of Git. Automatically running a daemon is not
> > useful
> > to most of its users.
> >
> > So they are already aware of and addressed the problem, but older
> > releases will still show it.
>
> Yeah, and I think that https://bugs.debian.org/953875 has fixed the
> problem where installing runit (by using git-daemon-run) would switch
> the default init system. So in bullseye, this will probably be
> fixed even if the daemon does get installed.
>
> I think the person who previously maintained both Git and runit in
> Debian was busy with other things for a while, which prevented this
> issue from being fixed. Now Jonathan is maintaining Git (and is
> doing a
> great job, especially with the next builds in experimental) and
> someone
> else has taken over runit and fixed the problem mentioned above,
> which
> occasionally caused this same problem with other packages as well.
>
> So I think this will sort itself out in the next release, and in the
> meantime, just be careful with git-all in buster and older.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-19 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-14 18:23 Git install crashed nearly whole System Christian Strasser
2021-03-14 18:52 ` Santiago Torres Arias
2021-03-18 11:34 ` Christian Strasser
2021-03-14 20:20 ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-18 10:37 ` Christian Strasser
2021-03-18 16:33 ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-18 17:00 ` Jeff King
2021-03-18 17:24 ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-19 15:50 ` Christian Strasser [this message]
2021-03-14 21:17 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-03-18 9:54 ` Christian Strasser
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