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Re: Debian packages and upstart jobs



Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de> writes:

> debehlper >= 7.4.1 contains an implementation of dh_installinit which
> takes care of debian/$package.upstart (and debian/$package.$name.upstart
> when called with --name= parameter) by installing the job(s) to
> /etc/init.d/ with a symlink from /etc/init.d/$jobfile ->
> /lib/init/upstart-job. It also adds 'upstart-job' to the substvars in
> misc:Depends.

> The status of 'upstart-job' is unknown to me, which raises my concern
> that Debian boot system may not be ready for upstart jobs when they are
> installed by dh_installinit.

Oh, huh, that's intriguing.  I'm not completely sure that I want to pull
upstart-job in for all users of OpenAFS, but that's a really elegant
solution to the problem.  Maybe I should.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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