On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Evan Broder <[email protected]> writes: > >> Russ, if someone came up with an Upstart job, how opposed would you be >> to a package that installed the sysvinit script on Debian and the >> Upstart job on Ubuntu, so that we we could just sync the package from >> Debian? > > I'd be happy to do that in theory, but in practice, I'm not sure how you > can do that with a dpkg package. Did you have an approach in mind? > > I was trying to come up with a way of doing that, but nothing was coming > to mind that wasn't kind of scary (like having the package build process > determine whether it was being built on an Ubuntu or a Debian system and > building packages with different contents on that basis, which seems like > a bad idea since it will generate multiple *.deb files with the same name > and version but different contents depending on where they're built).
That was...basically what I was thinking of doing. -- karmic: /afs should be ready before gdm starts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483506 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
