Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Wed Mar 10 15:08:05 UTC 2010
Hi,
Hmmm..I see a problem. Ubuntu isn't Debian so they can break Debian
policy as much as they wish. Which sucks.
At Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:43:18 +1100,
Trent W. Buck wrote:
>
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> >> pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from
> >> starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies.
> >> This works well for sysvinit packages.
> >>
> >> However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons
> >> use upstart instead of sysvinit. Thus, they ignore policy-rc.d,
> >> try (and fail) to start, further causing the postinst, dpkg,
> >> satisfybuildepends and ultimately the entire pdebuild to fail.
> >
> > Erm... why not fix upstart to respect policy-rc.d ?
>
> I don't know if it should -- I'm just a lowly sysadmin. By all means
> try to convince the upstart people to support policy-rc.d. If so,
> please retitle and reassign this ticket to upstart.
>
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