[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] dpkg triggers for dbus config files

[Michael Biebl]

Hi everyone,

the current discussion debian-devel about dpkg triggers [1], made me
wonder if we should use them for packages installing dbus configuration
files.
Atm, we rely on the inotify support in dbus, to detect changes to the
configuration (which is buggy [2] atm. Besides, there might be custom
kernels around without inotify support). Some packages also manually
reload dbus in postinst, some don't.

We could easily address this, by installing a triggers control file in dbus:
interest /etc/dbus-1/system.d
This would cause a trigger, whenever a file is modified in
/etc/dbus-1/system.d.

What do you think about that?

Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=blob;f=doc/triggers.txt
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-March/009523.html
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