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screen package

  1. Bug #574773
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 574773

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 574773] Re: Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied (convert init to upstart)

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, John Dong wrote:

> I'm mainly concerned about the behavior change (e.g. hardcoded calls to
> the screen init script, and so on) that SRU's typically don't have.

For this point in particular, debhelper installs a replacement
/etc/init.d/<sysvinit-script> that invokes the upstart job correctly. If
something was parsing output text that may break, but if something is just
calling 'start', then it would be fine. You can see an example just by
looking at your /etc/init.d for symlinks to /lib/init/upstart-job.

reading the changes, i'm not sure that that debhelper code would kick in,
as kirkland has deleted the debian/init script from the package. you may
actually have to leave both in place... Just have to test that.
It can be done though.