Comment 21 for bug 253465

Any chance this is going into official repositories?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Naresh V<email address hidden> wrote:
> daemontools 1:0.76-3ubuntu1~ppa1 and
> daemontools-run 1:0.76-3ubuntu1~ppa1 installed fine - unlike the ubuntu's daemontools-run package which crapped out.
>
> --
> [SRU] daemontools-run needs to work with upstart
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253465
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> Status in “daemontools” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: daemontools-run
>
> SRU-JUSTIFICATION:
>
> 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
> [...]
> 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
>
> All users will encounter this problem, making this package effectively unusable.
>
> SRU-TESTCASE:
>
> 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.
>
> SRU-REGRESSION-POTENTIAL:
>
> Non-existent, it does not work now, what worse can it get? ;-)
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Eduardo J. Ortega U.