[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#769477: Bug#769477: [libvirt-daemon-system] cannot install libvirt-daemon-system: error with insserv

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> Il 14/11/2014 14:04, Guido Günther ha scritto:
> > I'd guess you have a leftover config file /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin
> > since you made manual modifications and so d-m-h couldn't remove it?
> 
> Yes, purging libvirt-bin and libvirt-daemon-system and then reinstalling
> them fixed the problem.
> 
> BTW, should not this upgrade path be supported, even if the user changes
> /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin? If not, feel free to close the bug.

It would be nice to support this, we're using dpkg-maintscript-helper
for the common case but this case involves moving over the modified
config file _and_ changing it to pull in the correct defaults
file. I'd to see patches for this since I'm currently lacking the time
to work on it.
Cheers,
 -- Guido