Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Yvan Taviaud
> Thanks for the patch. Since Debian's freeze for the upcoming stable > released named Stretch is imminent, we won't apply the patch in the > next few months, but will have closer look at it after Debian's > Stretch release (which hopefully happens this summer). Yes, I know it's freezing (and I'm

Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Yvan, Yvan Taviaud wrote: > > The primary problem with this is: How should it find the according > > init.d script or .service file if not via the package's file list? > > I think that if the process isn't packaged, it was installed by the user, > hence he can find out by himself how to

Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Yvan Taviaud
> The primary problem with this is: How should it find the according > init.d script or .service file if not via the package's file list? I think that if the process isn't packaged, it was installed by the user, hence he can find out by himself how to restart it. I've spent one hour on a fix for

Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: retitle -1 debian-goodies: checkrestart does find correctly the process of locally installed programs, but not its init script or .service file Hi again, just some more hints on this: Axel Beckert wrote: > Yvan Taviaud wrote: > > I've found in the code that all scripts go through

Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: found -1 0.68 Hi Yvan, Yvan Taviaud wrote: > For example, I've compiled Hitch myself (https://hitch-tls.org/), [...] Yvan Taviaud wrote: > I've found in the code that all scripts go through dpkg-query --search and > that's the issue: as I've compiled hitch

Bug#852933: Issue is linked to the fact that file isn't in a package

2017-01-28 Thread Yvan Taviaud
I've found in the code that all scripts go through dpkg-query --search and that's the issue: as I've compiled hitch software myself, it doesn't belong to any package. Could there be a fallback for all those scripts? I don't see the need to package my own .deb for such softwares, so as long as it