Re: Backport of bacula 7.4.3+dfsg-1

[Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>]

On 08/03/2016 02:58 PM, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
> we (the Bacula Packaging Team) have prepared a backport of bacula
> 7.4.3+dfsg-1 (which is in testing), but it contains a small change (see
> the attached diff or ¹). The change is necessary to ensure that the old
> bacula-director daemon is stopped and we don't end up with the old and
> new one running on the system. The init file is not in the same package
> as the daemon, so the test for "same executable" via "start-stop-daemon
> --exec" can fail because the binary could already have been replaced by
> the newer one.

Wouldn't the same issue also occur when upgrading from jessie to
stretch and should the fix hence not also be applied to the
package in stretch/sid as well? (Then there would be no special
backports-related change in the package.)

Regards,
Christian