Re: Git install crashed nearly whole System

> 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.