Source: socket-activate Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), pandoc, socat , Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Homepage: https://gitlab.com/dkg/socket-activate Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/socket-activate.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/socket-activate Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: socket-activate Architecture: all Depends: python3, ${misc:Depends}, Description: Run a socket-activated daemon with minimal dependencies socket-activate makes it possible to use socket-activated services on Unix-based systems that don't have systemd installed at all. . It implements the environment variable and file descriptor convention described in sd_listen_fds(3) without using any external code or dependencies from systemd. It only depends on python3 itself.