New essential package sysvinit-utils split out from sysvinit

2006-09-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
To prepare for the async boot system upstart currently in experimental, the sysvinit source package maintainers have decided to split out a few programs from the sysvinit binary package. The new sysvinit-utils package will be a dependency of upstart, and the old sysvinit package is a conflict. T

Re: New essential package sysvinit-utils split out from sysvinit

2006-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:09:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > To prepare for the async boot system upstart currently in > experimental, the sysvinit source package maintainers have decided to > split out a few programs from the sysvinit binary package. The new > sysvinit-utils package wi

Re: New essential package sysvinit-utils split out from sysvinit

2006-09-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > sysvinit is also an Essential package. What steps are you taking to ensure > that you've retained the proper semantics for Essential? Such changes > should be backed with more than just an apt upgrade test, because an apt > upgrade where everything /works/ may not be the case