On 19/06/15 00:04, Noel Torres wrote:
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> escribió:
> [...]
>>> I expect the dependency chain should be something like:
>>> <daemon> depends on: init, <daemon>-sysv-init | <daemon>-epoch-init |
>>> <daemon>-systemd-init | <daemon>-openrc-init | <daemon>-upstart-init
>>>
>>> And if each of those <daemon>-*-init packages depended on their
>>> respective init system, and each of those init systems provide the
>>> virtual package "init" (as is the case in Debian and Devuan Jessie),
>>> then apt should be able to work out that when installing <daemon>
>>> that because sysvinit-core is the package providing init that it must
>>> also install <daemon>-sysv-init in order to satisfy the dependency.
>>> The problem is whether changing init systems would result in pulling
>>> in the new <daemon>-*-init dependency required for the new init system.
>>>
>>> Thoughts??
>>>
>>
>> This is the normal way of implementing this kind of multiple
>> alternative dependencies in Debian, AFAIU. The only reason I did not
>> advocate this before is that it would bring in a bunch of new packages
>> each containing only one small file. But this might not be a big deal
>> after all, considering it solves the problem completely, allows to get
>> rid of the irritating systemd service files, and treats all other init
>> systems equally.
>>
>> I support this idea.
>> Didier
>
> I support it as well, but this implies the extra work of putting the
> sysvinit scripts in separate packages, and that's quite a lot of work,
> and deepens the Delta with our Upstream (a.k.a. Debian), so when they
> fix something (e.g. a bug in Apache) we will need to port that to our
> package, instead of just copying their package.
>
It's just a change in the control file and install files in debian/ for
the package. No big deal really.
> Maybe a compromise solution is to do this for all init systems but
> sysvinit, for Jessie, and work on the fully "hairy" dependency chain for
> Jessie+1 a.k.a Ascii.
>
That could work, but there is nothing stop starting that work in ascii
now (except all the work needed to get Jessie out the door).
--
Daniel Reurich
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