Issue #3461 has been updated by micah -.
The funny thing about this is that the debian directory *used* to be included in the puppet git repository, until I requested that it be removed in #1779 over a year ago. The debian packaging effort was struggling because the upstream release included the debian directory, which was an outdated copy of the debian packaging and was a major burden when we tried to merge in upstream's branches. git got very confused by the similarity of the two debian directories and proceeds to fail on merging and renaming resulting in a conflicting mess. As I said in the original bug report... the normal way that software has been distributed, at least since I have been paying attention to it for the last 10+ years has been upstream ships a tarball of their code, and that is it. if people wanted to build their own debian packages based off of the latest upstream they should simply pull down the debian source pacakge and use the debian directory that is there. Debian is a distributor of upstream software, its very simple when it is kept simple. It gets hopelessly messy when Debian's upstream (for anything) decides to try and take on some of the distributor's roles and start distributing the distribution bits (in this case, the debian directory). I think it is a mistake to change the way this has been done on the internets for ages, and anyone who doesn't see why this is a mistake ends up learning why sooner or later. ---------------------------------------- Bug #3461: Debian init scripts not packaged in ext along with others http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3461 Author: Michael DeHaan Status: Needs design decision Priority: Low Assigned to: Nigel Kersten Category: installation Target version: Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: Branch: When installing from source, I'd like it if setup.rb installed init scripts for me, possibly as an option, or otherwise they were at least there for me to copy. SuSE, RedHat, gentoo, etc all seem to be in tree, but there are no Debian examples. This makes a source install a little more difficult on that platform as I have to furnish my own init scripts. I'm looking in http://github.com/reductivelabs/puppet/tree/master/conf/ -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
