Hello,

I'd like to split a package foo into 2 new packages : foo and
foo-daemon. To do that I moved the daemon and the other obvious files
with dh_install -pfoo-dameon. I used dh_installinit to install the
init.d file to the foo-daemon package.

Everything seems fine, but when I upgrade foo to the new foo+foo-daemon.
I get 2 files in /etc/init.d/ :
foo and foo-daemon.

Here are my questions : what am I doing wrong ? How can I remove the
/etc/init.d/foo unnecessary file ?

Regards,
Bertrand

2 things : I'm an not on debian-devel, and in this case foo = fglrx-driver

Bertrand Marc wrote:

No, you can't just remove /etc/init.d/foo. It is a conffile and may be
modified by admin. You should probably keep /etc/init.d/foo instead of
renaming it foo-daemon.

Will foo depend on foo-daemon? If yes, why are you splitting the package?

- Adam

Thanks for your answers!

So I guess the best way to do this is to split the package and use
dh_installinit --name=foo

This way I can provide the buggy binary daemon in a seperate package
(recommended by foo), and keep the name of the conffiles.

Do you think of something else?

Regards,
Bertrand

In article <4829CC26.8080509@gmail.com> (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote:

dpkg does not remove orphaned conffiles.

If it is not *really* necessary do not move the conffile from one
package to another. If it must be, you'd need to do this in the
maintainerscripts:

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Bertrand Marc wrote:

I did something similar for the init script and defaults for shorewall.
I turned shorewall into a dummy package, and then I had
shorewall-common, shorewall-perl and shorewall-shell. The configuration
files went into shorewall-common, but I kept the files named
/etc/init.d/shorewall and /etc/default/shorewall.

Regards,

-Roberto

Bertrand Marc wrote:

So the fglrx driver works fine *without* the daemon?

- Adam

I'm currently using fglrx without atieventsd (for testing pupose).
Everything is working fine except for the acpi stuffs. Whenever I'm on
battery, I have to manually configure aticonfig with --set-powerstate 1.

Except for this, everything is fine. I have 3D acceleration, as usual.