On 02/22/2012 02:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > >> On 02/21/2012 08:06 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> >>> If I understand correctly, the current Ubuntu version 1.4-0ubuntu8 >>> works perfectly for Debian. Is there any reason to not upload this >>> version to Debian? >>> >>> >>> >> I always wondered: what's the point in having upstart in >> Debian, when we don't really use it? >> > Debian has a history for providing a variety of packages with similar > functionality and leave the choice up to the user. > In what way do we have a choice as a user? 1/ upstart Conflicts: with sysvinit. 2/ none of our (providing daemon) packages carry an upstart script (of course, because if they did, they would depend on upstart, which breaks everything because of 1/).
So our users have basically no choice. It's not only pretty useless, to have upstart in Debian, but it breaks everything when it installs! I'd even be tempted to fill a bug report with severity critical: "makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break" Because if you install upstart in a Debian system (that is, not a derivative, really Debian), it does break the whole system. So again, what's the point in having upstart in Debian? Thoughts anyone? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f44970e.7090...@debian.org