[Bug 253465] Re: [SRU] daemontools-run needs to work with upstart

[Andreas Moog]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: daemontools-run
  
- First off, I know that I am doing something I shouldn't, but I think
- this might be useful.
+ SRU-JUSTIFICATION:
  
- I was happy to learn that daemontools and daemontools-run will be
- available as packages in intrepid.  I am currently setting up a few
- hardy boxes and wanted to try installing these new intrepid packages.
- As you know, Ubuntu no longer uses /etc/inittab, however daemontools
- doesn't not know about upstart or the /etc/event.d directory.   Here is
- the output I get when installing the daemontools-run package (after the
- daemontools package has already been installed):
+ With the original jaunty-packages, daemontools will fail to install as
+ the postinst-script still relies on /etc/inittab to be there. As we use
+ Upstart in Ubuntu, the script fails:
  
  # dpkg -i daemontools-run_0.76-3_all.deb
- Selecting previously deselected package daemontools-run.
- (Reading database ... 20772 files and directories currently installed.)
- Unpacking daemontools-run (from daemontools-run_0.76-3_all.deb) ...
- Setting up daemontools-run (1:0.76-3) ...
- grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
- grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
- grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
- grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
- grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
+ [...]
  Adding SV inittab entry...
  cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
  
  dpkg: error processing daemontools-run (--install):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   daemontools-run
  
- I've created boot.eventd and run.eventd files that can be used during
- the installation from the package/run script (there are boot.inittab and
- run.inittab files already), and attached them to this report.
+ All users will encounter this problem, making this package effectively
+ unusable.
  
- It doesn't seem that this package will be able to be installed by any
- Ubuntu user until it supports upstart.
+ SRU-TESTCASE:
  
- Thanks,
+ Install daemontools-run from the repositories. It will fail (see above).
+ Now install daemontools-run from ppa https://edge.launchpad.net/~amoog/+archive/amoog-devel .
+ This will install the program and register it with upstart.
  
- Cory
+ SRU-REGRESSION-POTENTIAL:
+ 
+ Non-existent, it does not work now, what worse can it get? ;-)

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[SRU] daemontools-run needs to work with upstart
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253465
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