On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:51:08AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I would like to put this amendment into the next version of policy in > > the next few weeks. However, the scripts still do not appear to be in > > the sysvinit or file-rc packages; do you need help here? This can't > > go into policy until that's happened. > > Well, AFAIK we're waiting for Miquel to proceed. The scripts are in the > hands of both the sysvinit and file-rc maintainers...
Dear sysvinit and file-rc maintainers, I would like to get this stuff into policy at some point soonish. When will you be able to coordinate getting the necessary invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d scripts into your packages and get the necessary package dependencies correct? As Henrique wrote: > The invoke-rc.d scripts are available in http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ > (I think someone might want to test the file-rc one a bit more, it was NOT > tested as much as the sysvinit one). > > [...] > The proposed transition strategy (not in policy) is: > > 1. coordinate with sysvinit and file-rc maintainers so that: > - sysvinit release A includes invoke-rc.d, and conflicts with > filerc (<= B) > - file-rc release B includes invoke-rc.d (diverts the one in sysvinit to > invoke-rc.d.links), and depends on sysvinit (>= A) > > [...] Please let us know if you need help or an NMU for this. Thanks! Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/