[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#483607: Bug#483607: wrong fix?

[Michael Schutte]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>  kbd (1.14.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
>>  .
>>    * Change the LSB header of /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh to provide the
>>      unique name console-screen.kbd, closes: #483607.  This avoids collisions
>>      when replacing console-tools with kbd (and vice versa).
>
> Is that really the correct fix?
> Now other services, like e.g. console-setup are broken, because they expect 
> the facility to be named console-screen.
> E.g. /etc/init.c/console-setup has:
>
> # Should-Start:      console-screen

Indeed.  I apologize.

> There are a couple of other packages, which share the same problem, e.g.  
> all the syslog daemons provide the "syslog" facility.
>
> Wouldn't it be better, if update-rc.d.insserv allowed to insert two 
> services with the same Provides? IIRC insserv actually allows that and does 
> it correctly.

I second this for now.  But this is exactly one of these cases where
dependency based init systems could perform better than classical ones
by not allowing to insert both services, but picking only one instead.
Then again, I have no idea how this could be done correctly.

Apparently, this has been brought up before at least in #474515 and
#479377.

> CCed Peter for his opininon.

Heh…  We German-speaking folks aren’t used to the spelling Petter :-)

I’m waiting for his comment before deciding how to go on.

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <m.schutte.jr at gmail.com>
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