[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545368: sysvinit: dependency on sysvinit-utils should be versioned

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Sun Sep 6 17:54:48 UTC 2009


Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.87dsf-4
Severity: important

Quoting the Debian changelog:

,----
| sysvinit (2.86.ds1-66) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * Move bootlogd to the sysvinit-utils package, as it is useful also
|     without the sysvinit init program.  Make sysvinit-utils replace
|     sysvinit (<= 2.86.ds1-65) to handle this.
`----

The dependency of sysvinit on sysvinit-utils should be versioned to
(>= 2.86.ds1-66), otherwise /sbin/bootlogd can get lost if sysvinit is
upgraded but sysvinit-utils is not.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                   2.87dsf-4  scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                         2.9-26     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.85-3   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     2.0.38-1   Security Enhanced Linux library fo
ii  sysv-rc                       2.87dsf-4  System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.87dsf-4  System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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