On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 03:57:47AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >So > >currently, all packages that ship upstart jobs in Ubuntu carry a delta > >between Debian and Ubuntu (or do some fancy stepping in debian/rules to make > >the upstart job visible only under the right circumstances) because the > >upstart jobs can't be included in the Debian package. > Can you give me an example of "fancy stepping in debian/rules to > make the upstart job visible only under the right circumstances" as > you say, so that I can avoid the delta with Ubuntu? Or maybe you are > recommending against that kind of hack? That may be useful anyway, > if I want to maintain some backports, at some point. Ship the upstart job as debian/$pkg.upstart.in, only copy it to debian/$pkg.upstart in debian/rules if building for Ubuntu (as determined by a check of 'dpkg-vendor --derives-from ubuntu'). > >There is a patch for debhelper that will remove this constraint (i.e., both > >upstart jobs and sysvinit scripts will be installed /together/), but there's > >further groundwork to be applied in other packages before it should be > >included in the Debian archive. > Can you describe more what's needed? Any ETA? I'll dig up my notes and post to debian-devel about it as soon as I'm able. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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