dh_installinit does not install 'package.default' if 'package.upstart' exists

[Fortunato Ventre]

Binary package hint: debhelper

When building a package, if 'debian/package.upstart' and 'debian/package.default' both exist, 'debian/package.default' is ignored and not installed.
The attached patch fixes this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 30 12:51:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: debhelper 7.3.15ubuntu3 [modified: usr/bin/dh_installinit]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: debhelper
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[Fortunato Ventre (voria)]

The problem exists even in the latest debhelper (version 7.4.8) available in Debian Sid, so I filed a bug on the debian bug tracking system too:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558782

[Fortunato Ventre (voria)]

This bug has been fixed upstream with release 7.4.9.
Please backport it to karmic.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm not sure whether we should backport this to karmic (for a stable release, it may well be better to leave people's workarounds in place rather than potentially breaking them), but in any event the right way to represent this in Launchpad is to have the main bug task Fix Released and to have a separate karmic task.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Karmic has long since stopped to receive any updates. Marking the Karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".