[systemd-devel] getty at .service.m4 and serial-getty at .service.m4

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:19, LaMont Jones <lamont at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:49:11PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> > We can ask, but it has been that way for at least a decade so I'm
>> > guessing it's unlikely to be changed now. See this Debian bug from
>> > 2001, marked wontfix.
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=117596
>
>> I personally don't know the history of agetty resp. getty. [1]
>> But if we want the declare the getty implementation within util-linux as sort-of
>> the default, being bold and claiming the name "getty" might actually be a good idea.
>
> After a bit more digging:  back in the distant past, there was an agetty
> package in Debian.  Rather than hijacking the name, we renamed agetty in
> util-linux.  Given that the package was removed from Debian sometime before
> 2001, I have no issue with delivering agetty as a hardlink to getty (and
> therefore vice-versa).  That will remain so for the next eternity.  That is,
> I have no intention of removing the copy called 'getty', for reasons of not
> wanting to have to kill myself after the installed base screams.
>
> I'll add it now and it should land post-squeeze.

Awesome! Many thanks for your support on this.

Kay