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In Ubuntu, nova-compute and nova-compute-* depends on each other,
will it cause some problem?

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Julien Danjou <acid at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
>> There may have been some other contributors (especially Debconf
>> translations), but that's the main team. I'm not sure if Julien still
>> wants to get involved in the Debian packaging of Openstack, since he is
>> busy on the Ceilometer project.
>
> Well, I'm still interested, but don't have any direct use of them as of
> today, and have other things to do as you stated, so I'm not very active
> right now, I admit. :)
>
>> What happened > One of the problem we have in Debian, is that we have a strong allergy
>> to bzr. We use Git, and we are happy to do so, and I don't believe that
>> any of us wishes to go back to using bzr, for the same reasons Openstack
>> itself moved to Github. Also, since we use Git, it's easy for us to
>> import "upstream" code, which is a way better.
>
> FWIW I think you pointed (one of) the real problem here. :)
>
>> It's a little bit too late in the release cycle, I'm fearing the release
>> team reaction here.
>
> Oh, I think that all changes are too late now anyway.
>
>> There shouldn't be a version depend on lsb-base. Any lsb-base is fine,
>> IMO.
>
> I can't recall why, but I'm pretty sure the version is here for a good
> reason and for the init scripts.
>
>>>  nova-ajax-console-proxy:
>>>  - Debian does not provide this package at all. Ubuntu does.
>
> I think this is now superseded by novnc.
>
>>>  nova-vncproxy & nova-xvpvncproxy:
>>>  - Ubuntu has nova-vncproxy while debian has nova-xvpvncproxy (that provides nova-vncproxy)
>>>  - Ubuntu has a conflict against novnc, while debian does not.
>
> Same here, vncproxy is now novnc if I'm not mistaken. Don't know what
> nova-xvpvncproxy is.
>
>>> debian/nova-common.nova-manage.logrotate
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>  - ubuntu provides this, debian does not.
>>
>> This is a bug in our package that should be fixed.
>>
>>> debian/nova-common.postinst
>>> ---------------------------
>>>  - Ubuntu checks for the existance of an user/group before creating.
>>>    Debian should do the same.
>>
>> You didn't read the script correctly then. The debian package uses
>> getent, which is the correct way (tm) to do things. It's the Ubuntu
>> package that is wrong here, IMO.
>
> Is it me, but I don't see any getent? Anyway, I think getent isn't the
> way togo neither, the current implementation is fine, adduser does not
> fail if a group or a user already exists.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Julien Danjou
> # Free Software hacker & freelance
> # http://julien.danjou.info
>
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