Subject: bug#439: pdns-recursor: Package does not contain sysv init script anymore, only systemd unit files

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 09:59:28 +0100

On Wed, 6 May 2020 22:07:50 +0200 Wilfried Klaebe <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Package: pdns-recursor
> Version: 4.3.0-2
> Severity: critical

Wilfred,

Thanks for reporting this.

Looking at the changelog:

pdns-recursor (4.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.3.0, drop upstream applied patches
    (Closes: #957674)
  * Use debhelper v13, bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0
  * Enable Dnstap feature
  * Follow upstream socket-dir path and service user change.
    This also drops the init script: the socket-dir is now in a dynamically
    created path, and pdns-recursor expects to be started as non-root already.
    Both changes are unfeasible to support under a legacy init.

 -- Chris Hofstaedtler <[email-masked]>  Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:20:05 +0000

So it looks as if we will have to fork this package to see if we can reinstate a
working initscript.

Mark