-upstart subpackage vs tranditional initscripts

Chen Lei supercyper1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 18:17:06 UTC 2010


2010/6/3 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Chen Lei wrote:
>> Is it right for the maintainer to provide  two separate subpackages,
>> one with the tranditional rc.d contents and one with an upstart
>> scripts and make the -upstart subpackage have a higher priority over
>> sysinit subpackage?
>
> No. This is against our packaging guidelines. You'll notice that all the
> offending packages are by the same maintainer (you easily recognize them
> from the ridiculous Release versions).
>
> All those -upstart and -lsb subpackages must go away and the -sysv
> subpackages must be merged into the main package.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
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I found the maintainer violates fedora package/naming guideline many
times, we need a people to persuade him to obey those guideline.


A more ridiculous release number and a wrong version number:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176308

Chen Lei


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