[Piuparts-devel] Bug#752256: piuparts: any transitive reverse dependency of init-system-helpers (wrongly) fails test

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.58
Severity: important

Dear piuparts maintainers,

When testing a transitive reverse dependency of init-system-helpers,
piuparts claims that the package fails to purge, because stuff is left
in /etc/systemd/. The main piuparts.d.n installation overcomes this
issue by marking init-system-helpers pseudo-essential, but when running
piuparts without any other parameters on a changes file,
init-system-helpers is removed and thus the piuparts test fails with
left-over files.

Holger Levsen already investigated whether adding /etc/piuparts/scripts
as a default for --scriptsdir, but this has two issues:
1) The current scripts in /etc/piuparts/scripts don't mark
   init-system-helpers as pseudo-essential.
2) The --scriptsdir option is append-only, so this default cannot be
   reverted via command line options.

As such we are still in need of a solution to make piuparts "just work"
when invoked without parameters.

The openbsd-inetd package is a test case.

Helmut