Hi DDs, I am trying to get Scott's upstart daemon into Debian [0][1][2]. It's an alternative to sysvinit, but there's still quite a bunch of packages which depend on sysvinit. These dependencies were introduced a while back to work around an invoke-rc.d issue, and from all I can tell, they are legacy/obsolete now. 0. http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.hml 1. http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart2.html 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit Here is the list of packages that depend on sysvinit. For packages marked with (*), I already have the maintainers' consent. sysv-rc-conf powertweak-extra (*) nis (*) nfs-kernel-server nfs-common modutils lm-sensors kbd genpower console-tools bluez-utils I would like to file (normal) bugs to ask the maintainer to remove the dependency, and per our Developers' Reference 7.1.1 I am soliciting comments. If there are cases when the dependency cannot be removed, we ought to consider introducing a new virtual package for init daemons. Thanks for any comments. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems NP: Explosions in the Sky / The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
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