Evan Broder <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. Maybe I should just do that -- I'm just worried about user confusion and systems that are cross-installing some Debian packages and some Ubuntu packages. Never producing multiple things with the same name and version but different contents is one of those Packaging 101 rules that one should generally never violate, though. Too many things assume the invariant that any package with the same name and version is functionally identical. I suppose another alternative would be to ship an upstart configuration even on Debian, since it would just sit there in the upstart directory and not do anything unless upstart was installed. Hm. Maybe I should ask about this on debian-devel. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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
