Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:30:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often a versioned >> conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned dependency. > > This seems natural to me, but the policy contains this discou

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:30:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often a versioned > conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned dependency. This seems natural to me, but the policy contains this discouraging language: A Conflicts entry sh

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1645 +0200]: > You're always welcome to use the init-ng alioth project to discuss > ideas and do upstart development, you know. It is completely > on-topic there. Right. We're moving there. Anyone interested, please follow!

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1614 > +0200]: > > invoke-rc.d is a maintainer script compatibility layer to > > interface to the initscript subsystem (that happens to guarantee > > some functionality that some i

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1614 +0200]: > invoke-rc.d is a maintainer script compatibility layer to > interface to the initscript subsystem (that happens to guarantee > some functionality that some initscript subsystems don't provide > natively while at

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1526 > +0200]: > > This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as > > opposed to, say, file-rc style). If upstart provides symlinks, > > then we need a virtual

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > > > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > > > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and f

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and file-rc. > invoke-rc.d was added to sysv-rc and

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1526 +0200]: > This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as > opposed to, say, file-rc style). If upstart provides symlinks, > then we need a virtual package. If it doesn't, sysv-rc-conf needs > to keep

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > system since stable. Any initscript package that does not provide > invoke-rc.d (and doesn't piggyback on the one from sysvinit or file-rc) has I do mean "init script subsystem" package, of course. Not regular packages that have initscrip

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and file-rc. invoke-rc.d was added to sysv-rc and file-rc at almost the same time, we didn't botch THAT transition at all, thank you v

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > Here is the list of packages that depend on sysvinit. For packages > marked with (*), I already have the maintainers' consent. > > sysv-rc-conf This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as opposed to, say, file-rc style). If up

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1344 +0200]: > Anyway, I shall wait until tomorrow and if I don't hear any > objections, I'll go ahead. The list is down to seven packages that need updating. I shall thus send out the bugs now. Sorry for the noise. -- Please do not sen

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:44:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1330 +0200]: > > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often > > a versioned conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned > > dependency. > Right. Most of

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1330 +0200]: > 11 packages is hardly a mass bugs filing and this is a bug > regardless of the upstart issue. Please go on. The devel ref says to contact -devel for more than 10 bugs. Anyway, I shall wait until tomorrow and if I don't hear a

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to file (normal) bugs to ask the maintainer to remove > the dependency, and per our Developers' Reference 7.1.1 I am > soliciting comments. 11 packages is hardly a mass bugs filing and this is a bug regardless of the upstart issu

potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
Hi DDs, I am trying to get Scott's upstart daemon into Debian [0][1][2]. It's an alternative to sysvinit, but there's still quite a bunch of packages which depend on sysvinit. These dependencies were introduced a while back to work around an invoke-rc.d issue, and from all I can tell, they are leg