[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#602511: nodm upstart job

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 08.11.2010, 10:37 +0100 schrieb Luigi Capriotti:
> On 11/08/2010 10:26 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > I had waited till after the release of squeeze (but I don’t mind Enrico
> > or other pkg-fso-maintainers to upload it earlier). Is there a special
> > reason why you’d rather see an earlier upload? Would uploading to
> > experimental help you?
> I would like to have the upstartised nodm out at your earliest 
> convenience (note: on ubuntu repos) since I would be able to base our 
> next release on that. We are using the traditional approach right now.
> 
> Having nodm run by init does not allow me to prioritize our custom 
> upstart job; instead the proposed nodm upstart job mimicks these of 
> kdm/gdm ie it emits a signal (starting-dm) which I can use to run our 
> job prior of the real execution of nodm. Apart from that, plymouth acts 
> properly by having a dm, so the boot visual experience is perfect, while 
> it is not without.
> 
> We are not in a hurry for our next release, it's probably some months 
> from now, but I'm just thinking ahead and plan for it.

ok, let us know when there is a more urgent need for a release, in case
that happens before we upload nodm anyways.

Greetings,
Joachim

PS: Please keep the bug report address in the CC for reference.

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