Comment 9 for bug 483506
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| Evan Broder (broder) wrote Re: [Bug 483506] Re: karmic: /afs should be ready before gdm starts | #9 |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery <email address hidden> wrote:
> Evan Broder <email address hidden> writes:
>
>> Russ, if someone came up with an Upstart job, how opposed would you be
>> to a package that installed the sysvinit script on Debian and the
>> Upstart job on Ubuntu, so that we we could just sync the package from
>> Debian?
>
> I'd be happy to do that in theory, but in practice, I'm not sure how you
> can do that with a dpkg package. Did you have an approach in mind?
>
> I was trying to come up with a way of doing that, but nothing was coming
> to mind that wasn't kind of scary (like having the package build process
> determine whether it was being built on an Ubuntu or a Debian system and
> building packages with different contents on that basis, which seems like
> a bad idea since it will generate multiple *.deb files with the same name
> and version but different contents depending on where they're built).
That was...basically what I was thinking of doing.