Re: really? (Debian Policy and LSB)

2012-04-11 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Ah thanks. YEs that rings a bell now. On 11/04/12 21:04, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Hmm... This contradicts section 6.1 of the Debian policy. "The package management system looks at the exit status from these scripts. It is important that they exit

Re: really? (Debian Policy and LSB)

2012-04-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Hmm... This contradicts section 6.1 of the Debian policy. > > "The package management system looks at the exit status from these > scripts. It is important that they exit with a non-zero status if Here "these scripts" refer to "package maintainer

really? (Debian Policy and LSB)

2012-04-11 Thread Nicholas Bamber
tag 621020 +moreinfo thanks Regarding #621020 "/etc/init.d/mysql uses "set -e" for most of the script, but that is not compatible with the LSB library /lib/lsb/init-functions. This particularly causes problems whenever log_end_msg is called with a nonzero argument, as log_end_msg will return th

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Brian May wrote: > > On 10 April 2012 16:06, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > >> dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty dpkg --purge > > >> > > > That's a pretty dangerous line. People (sometimes) don't purge packag

Bug#668413: ITP: libcgi-compile-perl -- module for compiling .cgi scripts to a code reference

2012-04-11 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-compile-perl Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Compile/ *

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:03:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >Package: general >Severity: serious >Tags: wheezy, sid > >While we strive to get multiarch ready for squeeze, there is >currently nothing to point to what the multiarch tuples actually >mean, neither on the Debian side nor on some kin

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sven Joachim] > I beg to disagree, it is already unsupportable because the only way > to test it is to set up a lenny system, create some local init > script without LSB headers to prevent migration to dependency based > boot, and then upgrade all the way to squeeze and wheezy. You can also inst

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 05:14:34, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/11/2012 06:12 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > - if the init script left behind was part of a Debian package, deleting > > the init script means removing part of the configuration from the Debian > > pacakge, yet not purging the packa

Bug#639214: Find aa paartner aand get laaid t0night!x

2012-04-11 Thread JOHN ROJAS
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Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-11 12:13 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > 2) Static order is currently supported and supporting it for wheezy > doesn't incurr horrible amounts of work. I beg to disagree, it is already unsupportable because the only way to test it is to set up a lenny system, create some local ini

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13:09PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > As a side note I have a use case at work where static order seems to be > needed. We build boot images for network boot of clusters. During boot > additional files can be copied from NFS into the system i

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > Hi, > > When dependency-based booting was introduced, it was initially > entirely optional. We later made it the default, and encouraged > users to switch to dependency-based boot on upgrade. So today, > pretty much everyone will be using dependency-based boot with > there

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/11/2012 06:12 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > - if the init script left behind was part of a Debian package, deleting the > init script means removing part of the configuration from the Debian pacakge, > yet not purging the package it belongs to. This feels like something that > would volate D