Package: insserv
Severity: important
innserv needs to be modified to support multiple packages providing
the same service. Otherwise, it is impossible for a package which
provides a common service (and also conflicts with another provider of
that service) to use insserv without manual
[Don Armstrong]
innserv needs to be modified to support multiple packages providing
the same service. Otherwise, it is impossible for a package which
provides a common service (and also conflicts with another provider
of that service) to use insserv without manual intervention. See
#606588
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Don Armstrong]
innserv needs to be modified to support multiple packages providing
the same service. Otherwise, it is impossible for a package which
provides a common service (and also conflicts with another provider
of that service) to use
[Don Armstrong]
What's the reasoning behind disallowing multiple packages to provide
the same service, anyway?
At the moment bogus ordering is created when several scripts provide
the same facility. To avoid this such setup is rejected with an error.
I proposed allowing scripts to provide
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Don Armstrong]
What's the reasoning behind disallowing multiple packages to provide
the same service, anyway?
At the moment bogus ordering is created when several scripts provide
the same facility. To avoid this such setup is rejected with
[Don Armstrong]
That sounds like a bug that should be fixed, especially in the case
where scripts all have the same dependencies and don't introduce
circular dependencies.
Well, I believe the virtual facility solution is good enough, and do
not have the spare time required to work on an
block 606588 by 606593
user d...@debian.org
usertag 606593 todo
thanks
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Don Armstrong]
That sounds like a bug that should be fixed, especially in the case
where scripts all have the same dependencies and don't introduce
circular dependencies.
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