The usual:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Apologies here. I've been working in the commercial sector too long that demands the exact opposite citing annoyances for not top posting!
On 07/15/2013 02:39 PM, Chris Fordham wrote:
> Checking it out, cloud-init on LP does not include any service control
> scripts.
By "service control", do you mean startup script? If so, it does, for
both upstart and sysv-rc.
> Can someone refer what the upstream source is (URLs please) for the
> current packages in Ubuntu and Debian?
https://launchpad.net/cloud-init/trunk/0.7.2/+download/cloud-init-0.7.2.tar.gz
contains a sysvinit folder containing some init scripts.
wow, sorry. Somehow I did not see that with my eyes.
> Does the package maintainer only
> have these to put in the package?
What do you mean? As discussed, I have been using scripts in the debian
folder, not the ones in the upstream source tree, which are adapted for
CentOS.
debian folder of what sorry?
> I like the concept of having a separate repository for service control
> of a software title.
What do you mean?
Simply having the init scripts in a separate repos.
> It means its separated from the software itself,
> very accessible and can be version controlled and managed upstream just
> like the software itself.
Upstream wont care much about sysv-rc script, since they use upstart.
What we do in Debian is using SVN on Alioth, so it really is using a
VCS, no problem with that. To me, having to upstream the Debian init
script is just some added useless work with no benefits at all. Anyone
who has a different opinion (and do not work on the package) shouldn't
spend time discussing the issue in this list (this is pointless), and
work on upstreaming the init scripts. I would really appreciate if
someone did. This is just a mater of opening a bug in Launchpad I guess,
and attaching the Debian init scripts.
If upstream don't care about service scripts then that does sound like a good reason to have them in a VCS repository which sounds like we already have.
But in this case, yes we just contribute in Ubuntu which isn't hard and Scott Moser is easy to get in touch with.
This was kind of my original point - put them in the upstream so we can include them in the package downstream.
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