packaging jack...

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

>> When you register with libjack, it will start the daemon if it is not 
>> already running.  So, you can't have the library without the daemon.[*]
>
> That sounds like trouble: if such application is invoked inside a chroot, it 
> causes a mess!
>
> Debian mandates ability to enforce daemons to not be started (it is called 
> policy.d - see e.g. the Debian package policyrcd-script-zg2 for more info 
> (and probably somewhere in Debian Policy itself - too lazy to look it up 
> right now).

jackd is not Not NOT a system daemon and should never be 
started by an rc.d script.

jackd is a user daemon that should started and stopped by a 
normal user.

-gabriel