Shepherd in Debian

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi

I've packaged Shepherd 1.0.0 and guile-fibers 1.3.1 for Debian, and they
are in the NEW queue pending copyright review.  Meanwhile you can test
the Salsa amd64 and i386 builds like this:

echo 'deb [trusted=yes] 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guile-fibers/-/jobs/6733535/artifacts/raw/aptly 
unstable main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/add.list
echo 'deb [trusted=yes] 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shepherd/-/jobs/6737847/artifacts/raw/aptly 
unstable main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/add.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shepherd

It was possible to install it on my Trisquel aramo laptop, so I suspect
it will work on a varied mix of not-necessarily latest Debian, Ubuntu,
PureOS, Trisquel, Devuan, Gnuinos etc.  Feel free to build the packages
yourself if you don't trust the pre-built binaries, sources are here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guile-fibers
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shepherd

The package provides /usr/bin/herd and /usr/bin/shepherd, bash
completion, translations, info manual and man pages.

The halt, reboot and shutdown tools are not installed as that felt like
a bad idea.

There is no integration into any system services, the packaging is
minimal.

I've not tested it beyond running 'herd --help' and 'shepherd --help',
which is the reason for this e-mail: could someone test and give some
example of a useful thing to use this for on Debian?

Patches, merge requests, and co-maintainers on the packaging are
welcome.

Btw, running 'herd --help' prints a lot of warnings like below.  Any
ideas where these come from and/or how to silence them?  Salsa used
Guile 3.0.9 and my laptop has Guile 3.0.7, if that matters.

;;; WARNING: loading compiled file 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/shepherd/scripts/herd.go failed:
;;; In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: incompatible bytecode version

/Simon

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