On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:18:30 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, Hello, > [..] > The default sequencing for Debhelper 7 means that code generated by > ‘dh_installinit’ appears before code generated by either of > ‘dh_pycentral’ or ‘dh_pysupport’ in the ‘postinst’ script. > > [..] > The problem comes when the ‘dh_installinit’ code not only installs the > package init script, it tries to execute it to start the service. That > fails, of course, because the ‘dh_pysupport’ code has not yet been > executed and the Python packages are not yet available for import. (In > this case, this has been reported as Bug#519623.) > > Should the default sequence for ‘dh_installinit’ not appear after > ‘dh_pycentral’ or ‘dh_pysupport’? I believe yes. I had encountered this same problem with wicd, and bzed helped me with that: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/wicd.git;a=commitdiff;h=93610ed6bcdea4fe211a266b85dcc64f8a3ccf92 (check the debian/rules changes) > Should I report this as a bug in Debhelper's default sequencing? Please do. I believe this could be easily fixed in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/python_support.pm Thanks! David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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