Package: debhelper Version: 7.3.12 Severity: normal The ‘postinst’ fragment generated by ‘dh_installinit’ causes a problem for packages whose init scripts require loadable modules installed later, e.g. by the ‘dh_perl’, ‘dh_pycentral’, or ‘dh_pysupport’ code.
This results in problems like Bug#510457 and Bug#519623, because while the *installation* of the init script is successful, the *execution* of it (to start the service) fails if attempted before the loadable modules are available. In my opinion, the job of ‘dh_installinit’ should be limited to only installing the init script; and starting the service (and hence likely running programs installed later by the package scripts) should be a separate, later step. Ideally, this would be fixed by: * having ‘dh_installinit’ in the same default sequence position, but only installing (not executing) the init script at that time; and * having a separate step for doing the ‘/etc/init.d/foo start’, generated by a separate debhelper command; and * having that service start step default to a point in the sequence later than anything like ‘dh_perl’ or the Python helpers. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.6-1 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.0-25 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.48 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
