Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:08:25PM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (daemontools): New variable.
>
> Cool!
>
>> +    (name "daemontools")
>> +    (version "0.76")
>> +    (source (origin
>> +              (method url-fetch)
>> +              (uri (string-append
>> +                    "https://cr.yp.to/" name "/"
>> +                    name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
>
> Can you check if there are any important patches (security or other bug
> fixes) floating around? This release is 16 years young...
>
> For example, you might look at Debian's diff.gz:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/daemontools

It looks like Debian has 3 patches for this [1]. I used one of them in
the form of substitute* to get the package to build. I can include all
the patches if that is helpful, but I was actually hesitant to send this
patch at all.

I packaged it when trying to get the test suite for go-gopkg.in-mgo.v2
to pass as it uses utilities from daemontools, but I got stuck getting
mongodb to start. I left all of the stuff I did around the tests in
place, but just disabled them.

1: https://sources.debian.org/src/daemontools/1:0.76-6.1/debian/diff/