Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > Let's say you're doing an Ubuntu package. In this case, you'd be > using upstart, and not an insserv scripts, and you wouldn't need to > depend on lsb-base for example. Or logrotate restarting of daemons > in Ubuntu would use "restart" in Ubuntu, when we use "invoke-rc.d". > T

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:12:00AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Let's say you're doing an Ubuntu package. In this case, you'd be > using upstart, and not an insserv scripts, and you wouldn't need to > depend on lsb-base for example. Or logrotate restarting of daemons > in Ubuntu would use "restar

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 at 01:12:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Let's say you're doing an Ubuntu package. In this case, you'd be > using upstart, and not an insserv scripts, and you wouldn't need to > depend on lsb-base for example. Or logrotate restarting of daemons > in Ubuntu would use "restart"

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/03/2012 11:37 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On 2012-01-03 15:16, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I agree with you, also, and also would like to highlight that native >> packages are a pain for derivatives! > > Can you expand on that point please? What are the particular problems > in this scenario

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2012-01-03 15:16, Thomas Goirand wrote: I agree with you, also, and also would like to highlight that native packages are a pain for derivatives! Can you expand on that point please? What are the particular problems in this scenario? Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/03/2012 10:47 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, Stefano Canepa wrote: > >> I would like to know if it is worth to >> switch this package to native. If yes where is it better to keep all >> sources? At present they are on github. >> > In my experience nati

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, Stefano Canepa wrote: > I would like to know if it is worth to > switch this package to native. If yes where is it better to keep all > sources? At present they are on github. In my experience native packages are rather annoying as they will create a full orig.ta