[hybrid] hybserv + Hybrid 8; Debian packaging

[Michael Wobst]

Holla Dominic,

can't tell you much about Hybserv, but as far as I know, it still works 
good so far with the latest hybrid release. From what I have heard, 
SVSNICK (or the forced-nickchange-mechanism in general), does not longer 
work in Hybserv, and leads to a services crash. But this is just because 
the ircd's SVSNICK command now requires 3 parameters instead of 2; so 
this can be fixed easily.

Regards,
Michael

Dominic Hargreaves schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a user of ircd-hybrid and hybserv for a few years now, and I've
> recently stepped up to maintain them in Debian[1][2]. However I'm not
> actually sure whether it makes sense to re-introduce hybserv at this
> point. I'll find this out when I get as far as building and testing
> new packages, but it would help me if someone could confirm whether
> I should expect these to work together. I'm not clear about how the
> services related changes introduced in Hybrid 8 relate to external
> services daemons (are there others I should be looking at instead?)
>
> Also, if anyone else is interested in helping out with the Debian
> packaging, let me know! Development is currently hosted at [3]
> (I have some half-finished work in my local repo which is an initial
> move to 8.0.3, too).
>
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
>
> [1] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ircd-hybrid.html>
> [2] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hybserv.html>
> [3] <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/dom/ircd-hybrid.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/experimental>
>