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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 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.

That won't happen, sorry.  Etch will need some stuff that simply doesn't
exists in sarge.

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

It might be a bit slower (extra fork, pipe setup), but it won't make much
of a difference, either way.  I doubt it is in the easily measurable land.

> 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.

IMHO It makes no sense to do such a change and place it in a function call,
the function call is probably slower than the original code to begin with :)

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