affects squeeze, package has only been updated in testing

[Dmitry Bogatov]

control: reassign -1 init-system-helpers

update-rc.d(8) now belongs to init-system-helpers. Reassigning.

[2011-02-21 14:29] Tim Connors <twc at aao.gov.au>
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> reopen 573551
> thanks
> 
> The fix in 2.6.4-1 in testing is all well and good, but the bug applies to
> stable.  Stable has the removed "update-rc.d stop" feature, and so in
> stable, I can't actually convince puppet to ensure the service is stopped.
> 
> Ideally, update-rc.d wouldn't have completely removed a feature (failing
> silently) that hadn't even been flagged as deprecated (as far as I'm
> aware) in oldstable, without providing any forwards or backwards
> compatibility (in oldstable, you can't run 'update-rc.d disable' because
> that doesn't exist, and in stable, you can't run 'update-rc.d stop'
> because it silently fails to do anything useful.  Who thought that would
> be a good idea?
> 
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