[debhelper-devel] Bug#876453: Remove support for upstart jobs from dh_installinit

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 22 September 2017 at 19:24, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 22.09.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> I see that we already cleaned up dh_installinit wrt to .service and
>> .tmpfile units in compat level 11 and beyond so it seems like a good
>> opportunity to do the same for .upstart jobs as an intermediate step
>> until we can remove upstart support completely from debhelper.
>>
>> Attached is a patch doing this first step (deprecating .upstart in newer
>> compat levels).
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Niels mentioned on IRC, that in compat 11, debhelper could make it an
> error to have an upstart file and use the opportunity to remind people
> to remove the conffile.
>
> I like that idea.
>

I'm not sure about the timing though. Many people maintain backports
for their packages, and do backport them "unmodified" sometimes by
means of backporting debhelper first to keep things building
unmodified.

Under such conditions, having upstart support in debhelper makes some
marginal sense.

What is the timing of the compat 11? is this something for buster or bullseye?

Btw, are debhelper major version numbers going to synchronise with the
debian release numbers? =)))) it would be cute.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.