Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 11:57:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> This bug was reassigned to upstart, but that is not correct.  The problem
> described here is that a bug in the version of *debhelper* in Ubuntu Lucid
> caused maintainer scripts for packages that shipped upstart jobs to
> incorrectly call 'start' instead of the policy-defined 'invoke-rc.d'
> interface.  This was a bug in debhelper in an old version of *Ubuntu*.

Great.
lucid is EOLed, that version of debhelper even precedes my involvement in
debian, and FWIW it's not even on supported debian releases.

> There is nothing that the *Debian* *upstart* package can do to work around
> this bug.

Neither pbuilder, diverting a file like that is not a fix.

> The bug was filed against pbuilder, as the tool managing the chroots on top
> of the Debian system, requesting that 'start' be diverted in order to give
> an effect similar to policy-rc.d.  You might close this bug as wontfix, but
> it's nothing that the Debian upstart package can help with.

indeed. closing then.

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