Bug#869840: zookeeper: merge zookeeper and zookeeperd packages

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Thu Jul 27 05:15:30 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:58:26AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Source: zookeeper
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Is there any bigger reason for having the daemon split from its
> init files?
> 
> Most daemon packages in Debian don't do this, zookeeperd contains
> only few small files so there is no real space benefit.
> 
> 
> I have absolutely nothing against if you don't want to have the
> daemon started just by installing the package, but this can also
> be achieved with the init files in the main package :-)
> 
> 
> At least zookeeperd should suggest zookeeperd.
> 
> 
> Further, zookeeperd has a package description of:
> >This package contains init.d scripts to start and stop zookeeper and starts zookeeper on installation.
> however it also contains systemd and even still upstart init files
> (the later can probably be dropped, now that upstream is dead).

Hi Chris,

I don't know the history of why zookeeper and zookeeperd were split into
separate packages, but I tend to agree that the separate daemon package
isn't strictly needed.  Maybe the idea was that a user might want to
install the management tools on a system that isn't also a zk server,
and that installing zookeeperd is the differentiating factor?

Thank you for the bug report.  Perhaps we can get some input from other
users or developers.  I will work on cleaning up the description and the
init files in zookeeperd.

Cheers,
tony
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