Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: reassign -1 upstart

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:43:18AM +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.

I agree. This is a bug in upstart, sorry.
I haven't even tried to check whether this is still the issue, but whatever
diversion for this sounds plain wrong.

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