Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2011, 01:35 +0200 schrieb Enrico Zini: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:31:40PM +0530, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > But then I find that dh_installinit would not install the regular init > > script if an upstart job is present, uses a compatibility link > > in /etc/init.d and adds a dependency on upstart-job, which seems to be > > only provided by upstart. I’m not sure if we want to force all users of > > nodm to switch to upstart – or is there an alternative? > > > > Enrico, what is your level of caring about nodm ATM? > > It goes in bursts, mainly depending on when I have customers who would > like me to work on it. > > I've just finished a rewrite so that nodm is now a real package manager, > tomorrow I'll do some real world testing and if all goes well, an upload > of the new version to unstable.
Great, I always found nodm a far better approach than dpkg! (Sorry, CNR ;-)) > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:06:45AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Also, I strongly counsel *against* shipping this, or any, upstart job in a > > Debian package until this policy bug is *fixed*. The conversation is > > ongoing, and deploying such upstart jobs now realistically just runs the > > (very high) risk that you'll have more work to do on your package later once > > the policy interfaces are refined and implemented. > > That is fine with me, I'll do that. > > I must admit that I've just found myself in a rather intense WTF moment, > after finding out that the nodm package from the master branch was > depending on upstart and not shipping an init.d file. > > I'm now going to move the upstart work that has been committed (thank > you for it, though!) to a separate "upstart" branch, and I'll upload > without it for now. Sounds good to me, and thanks for the ongoing maintenance. BTW, since I stopped using the Freerunner and, after your rewrite (which I appreciate!), don’t really know any of the nodm code, would you mind taking over maintenance completely? I doubt that I add much value here any more. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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