[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#367867: initscripts: need versioned dep on powermgmt-base for on_ac_power

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

tags 367867 + pending
thanks

> on_ac_power is in /usr/bin, where it is useless for the initscripts.
> We need access to it early in the boot sequence.

Actually, the calls to on_ac_power in checkfs.sh and checkroot.sh were
written explicitly to work as before when on_ac_power are unavailable,
and only skip fsck if the binary is found and report that the laptop
is on battery, to handle gracefully all installations where /usr/ is
unavailable.

If powermgmt-base is changed to move the binary to /bin/ or /sbin/,
that is fine with me, but I do not believe any versioned dependency is
needed for initscripts as it will work just fine both with and without
and old and new powermgmt-base package.

I've updated the comment in the init.d scripts to try to make this
more clear, and will close this bug with the next upload when these
comments make it into the archive.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen