I looked at the software closely, and it seems like it needs quite a bit more love than it receives now.
Upstream "startup wrapper" is quite strange, this is why Alexander rewrote it to a debian-specific thing, but this thing has its own issues. I asked upstream about this, and how whole thing should be used and how to package it and run it in a distribution. A discussion emerged, resulting in https://github.com/Zygo/bees/issues/244 . In that discussion I've added my view of how it should be done, together with a PoC script which can be temporarily used as a wrapper script for bees binary to play with it, and should gone once bees itself implements this functionality internally. Hopefully we'll end up with no startup script at all, - this is my goal here. So this is pending upstream review/comments for now, once we settle on something, it can be uploaded to debian and used by other distributions too. Since the original packaging as done by Alexander has now very little in common with the current packaging, I created a new repository (private for now) for bees debian packaging. This one also fixes some shortcomings of the Alexander's work, e.g. it is based on the upstream git repository branches/history instead of on contents of upstream tarballs without git history. Please stay tuned :) And if you want to help, I advise you to focus on https://github.com/Zygo/bees/issues/244 . Thanks, /mjt
