[Yaroslav Halchenko] > Do you think it might be worth having all firewall packages providing > "Provides:" 'firewall' boot facility (in addition to their own) so > it could be used as a dependency in init scripts such as fail2ban.
Nope, would not work. Would make it impossible to install two such packages on the same system because they would have duplicate dependencies. To do this, virtual facilities need to be used. See <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities > for background info. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
