[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#316468: Implement, but assist backporters?

[Thomas Hood]

James Youngman wrote:
> -		find . -xdev -depth $TEXPR $EXCEPT \
> -				! -type d -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f
> +		find . -xdev -depth $TEXPR $EXCEPT ! -type d -delete

etc.


Petter Reinholdtsen replied:
> I would prefer it if the current sysvinit package did not have any
> dependenices missing in debian/stable, to make it easier to backport
> the package to sarge.  Please wait with this change until etch is
> released.


Is "-delete" is no slower than the current "-print0 | xargs rm" code?
I'll assume so.

How about we make this change but encapsulate the find call in a function
in order to assist the sarge backporters?  The sysvinit packages already
require modification for use in sarge.
-- 
Thomas