needs "Essential: Yes" debian/control header
Bug #66536 reported by
Martin-Éric Racine
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| upstart |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Upstart currently lacks the "Essential: Yes" header in the control file.
Because of this, it cannot be used on a system with mixed APT sources. Pinning the upstart package doesn't work either; dist-upgrade insists upon installing 'sysvinit' because it has the Essential header set, while 'upstart' doesn't.
The simple cure is to add "Essential: Yes" to the binary target headers for 'upstart' in debian/control.
Revision history for this message
| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in upstart: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
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This is not an upstream bug, upstart doesn't include any packaging in its tarballs.
Also Ubuntu made a decision that upstart was not "Essential"; it doesn't need the special handling of those packages, and there are many other packages required for boot that are merely "required"