On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 07:54:23PM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> 
> 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.

Okay, it's up to you whether or not to add the daemontools package.