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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.09.2017 um 00:36 schrieb 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.

Well, maintainers don't have to bump the compat mode if backportability
is important to them. Do we really have to support this special case?


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