[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527846: Bug#527846: Bug#527846: consolekit: does not provide a init.d script (how do I restart the daemon?)

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 26 May 2009 12:20:00 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:

[...]
> Hi Francesco,
> as the discussion in this bug report diverted a bit I want to refocus again on
> the initial request to provide a sysv init script.

Thanks.

> 
> 1.) That's a wishlist bug and as consolekit is a dbus activated system daemon
> that is not started by sysv, I tag it as wontfix (as I don't intend to add a
> sysv init script). Simple reason is, that it will only add confusion, as you
> then would have separate ways to start the daemon. Don't want to do that.

OK, fair enough.

> 
> 2.) Second, separate issue, is that console-kit-daemon does not preserve state
> during restarts. As said, that's a different issue and should probably filed as
> a separate bug report.

Bug report filed: it's #534976.

> 
> 3.) Third and separate issue, is that console-kit-daemon is currently not
> automatically restarted on every upgrade. This should probably also be filed as
> a separate issue and is mainly blocked by 2.).

This could be useful, but let's wait for 2.) first...


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