Re: request for package review - serel
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:24:09PM +1000, Leni Mayo wrote:
> I am new to Debian and have packaged some software which lets the
> boot scripts (/etc/rc[12345].d) run in parallel. It also supports
> visualisation of services, dependencies and timings.
>
> As this is the first release on debian, I'd be grateful if someone
> with more packaging experience than myself could take a look at it,
> especially since the installation process patches /etc/init.d/rc.
It would be a good idea to read the proposals for improving the
initscript subsystem that were discussed at the recent Debian
conference:
http://people.debian.org/~hmh/
> One known bug is that the -ldb library is currently statically
> linked into the daemon, and it ought to be dynamically
> linked. I haven't yet figured how to bind the linker to a specific
> version of db that's known to be widely deployed.
Use whatever version you think is appropriate (say, db3) and let
dependencies do the rest of the work for you.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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