Bug#753779: Please ship util-linux implementation of mountpoint

[Josh Triplett]

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-5.8
Severity: wishlist

initscripts currently ships /bin/mountpoint; that's the only binary it
ships.  To allow an eventual transition away from the initscripts
package, please consider building and installing the util-linux
implementation of mountpoint, either diverting the one from initscripts
or adding a Replaces on initscripts.  That would allow a smooth
transition without any temporary breakage in unstable.  (initscripts can
drop the binary once unstable has a sufficiently new util-linux, and
util-linux can drop the diversion or Replaces once initscripts drops the
binary.)

I've checked, and the version of mountpoint in util-linux completely
matches the behavior of the one in initscripts.  It supports the same
three options (-q, -d, and -x), according to both the source code and
the manpage.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.53
ii  dpkg                   1.17.10
ii  initscripts            2.88dsf-53.2
ii  install-info           5.2.0.dfsg.1-4
ii  libblkid1              2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                  2.19-4
ii  libncurses5            5.9+20140118-1
ii  libselinux1            2.3-1
ii  libslang2              2.2.4-17
ii  libtinfo5              5.9+20140118-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  tzdata                 2014e-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  dosfstools           3.0.26-2
pn  kbd | console-tools  <none>
pn  util-linux-locales   <none>

-- debconf information excluded