Le 23 mars 2017 20:30:10 GMT+01:00, Lukas Schwaighofer <lu...@schwaighofer.name> a écrit : >Hi, > >thanks Vincent and Gianfranco for offering your advice! > >On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:13:52 +0000 (UTC) >Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote: >> did you consider to merge the work from Fedora? >> they already have a systemd service, and IIRC the project seems >> somewhat dead upstream, so merging their work and sending them >> patches might be beneficial for both distros. Please try to have a >> similar working tool, rather than diverging too much, specially when >> upstream is not active anymore. > >Well, I had looked at systemd unit files for arpwatch using web search. >Most of the unit files I found only allow starting one instance of >arpwatch. This is also true for the unit file included in Fedora. At >least openSUSE has a systemd service file which allows launching >multiple instances of arpwatch, but it does not allow different >configurations for the individual interfaces (which our current LSB >init script is capable of). > >I would like to avoid a situation where upgrading to the new version >requires writing systemd unit files, so we need to keep the ability to >have multiple instances of arpwatch which can be configured >differently. > > >I think calling the project "somewhat dead" is an understatement after >7+ years of inactivity. This is a long time and different distros have >accumulated different patches. There also used to be an arpwatch-ng >fork, which is now also dead. Debian's patches introduce quite a bit >of functionality to arpwatch as well. > >Now directly comparing Fedora and Debian, the arpwatch binaries are >pretty different (the introduced patches add different feature, newly >introduced arguments are conflicting, e.g. '-s', …). > >While I agree that a strong cooperation between the distros, especially >for packages with dead upstream, would be mutually beneficial, it is >hard to start doing that after the packages have diverted so much. > >> I don't think you want people having issues when switching from >> Fedora to Debian and vice-versa, specially with systemd configuration >> files :) > >Unless we want to drop some features available using our current LSB >init script (thereby forcing some admins to write their own systemd >unit files just to keep their current arpwatch setup), I don't think >incompatibilities can be avoided. > >> (as pkg-security team we might have some interests in having the >> package under our team, so you might find sponsors asking us to >> review your work!) > >Good to know, I will X-Debbugs-CC pkg-security once I file an RFS bug. >Team maintenance would be really nice :) . > >Regards >Lukas Will ne also nice to repack in ordre to remove oui db
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