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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Debian packages and upstart jobs
From:       Andreas Marschke <xxtjaxx () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-12 0:15:17
Message-ID: 200912120115.17926.xxtjaxx () gmail ! com
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Am Freitag 11 Dezember 2009 22:07:21 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> One of the packages I maintain, OpenAFS, is a network file system.  As
> such, one generally wants it to start before things like gdm that need to
> read the user's home directory.  However, in Ubuntu, gdm is started by
> upstart instead of an init script, and all init scripts are run after the
> native upstart jobs are run.
> 
> The best way to address this for Ubuntu would be to introduce an upstart
> job for OpenAFS.  However, the package is in universe and hence
> preferrably shared between Ubuntu and Debian.
> 
> Is there any reason why it would cause problems for me to add an upstart
> job to the Debian package, even though Debian doesn't currently use
> upstart?  (I realize that the logic around deactivating the init script if
> upstart is present may be a bit complex, but I suspect we can find ways of
> dealing with that.)  I assume the job just sit there quiescent until
> Debian switches to upstart.
> 
> (Separately, I'm going to look at upstream changes required so that I can
> have the openafs init script provide $remote_fs instead of depend on it as
> it does now so that it will move earlier in Debian's boot process as
> well.)
> 

Maybe you can add upstart to the Sugests and let a post inst search if there 
is upstart installed and so add it if avaiable. 

Just my two cents but it might help. 

Cheers,

Andreas Marschke.


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