Hello, IMHO, the packaging needs a bit more minor improvements before uploading. The init.d is not being installed correctly with 1.3.9. (I did not evaluate Mr. Cedric's patch yet. Could it be sent to my address?). Beyond the trivial file name issue, it is not installing the init.d script completely and correctly at a Debian machine the "debian way", leveraging the debhelper tools for these tasks. Also, as a suggestion, the samples placed at /etc/glusterfs/ could be renamed (worse alternative) or the init.d script modified for using the CONFIGFILE parameter for the same name without ".sample" (better alternative), leaving the file names as they are. The user will know that editing file and simply removing the ".sample" suffix will work. It is even possible to place them as "final" names, without ".sample" , configuring only for localhost, and using debhelper for configuration files. This way, if user modifies the files (and he/she should), the debconf will know that and offer to preserve/merge/substitute them. Or these sample files moved to /etc/default (using only localhost) and init script adapted for using them. Also, the init script uses functions of lsb-base, and the debian control file does not list it as a dependency. The init.d glusterfsd script uses double commands, for RH and for Debian, I guess. A correct implementation of LSB init scripts could use different options and a simpler script. The Debian start-stop-daemon is using "--startas" option. Could this option allow duplicated instances of the daemon (if the previous test status is removed)? The "--exec" options checks if a previous instance is running and exits with error, or when used with "--oknodo" ignores it and starts another instance, like "--startas". Is it correct? If so, is it the intended behaviour for glusterfsd? The rules file is almost not using the debhelper scripts, that could make things easier for packagers. There are some hints, and extensive bibliography (External useful links), that could help at the page: How to split a package into several smaller packages - How to create multiple binaries packages from one source package. [0] I hope these help. Regards. Andre Felipe Machado http://www.techforce.com.br [0] http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit
