Bug#753939: Please remove quotacheck and quotaon service files

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Mon Jul 7 12:33:08 BST 2014


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:04:49PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > - quota functionality should be in the quota package IMO
> 
> I was talking about the quotaon and quotacheck *binaries*, which are
> part of the quota package.

Ah, I thought you were talking about the two binaries as provided by the
systemd package.

> > - some of the additional functionality might not make much sense for a brand new system, not sure if systemd upstream would be interested in that
> 
> I didn't mean systemd upstream here, but quota upstream.
> If it is useful functionality, I would at least try to get it upstream.

It is, but it simply does not belong into these binaries. For instance out init
script checks which FS it should run quotacheck on for a normal check but also
for creating quota files. This could be another binary, but certainly does not
belong into either one of these binaries.

Michael
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