initscripts and how many patches to carry

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:29:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> There's a bug report (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/1580) which complains
> basically that many of our /etc/init.d scripts use `echo ...' rather
> than log_begin_msg etc.  This is of course suboptimal.
> 
> However, are we really intending to patch /all/ of our init scripts in
> main to fix this ?  Wouldn't it be better to offer relevant patches to
> Debian and provide this slight user experience improvement on a
> best-effort basis in the meantime ?

That is what we do.  We patch everything in the default installations, of
course, and on a best-effort basis beyond that.  All of the patches, as
always, are offered to Debian via Scott's patch-o-matic.

Debian has recently begun to adopt some of these patches.

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 - mdz