[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#399608: /bin/mountpoint: Move
/bin/mountpoint from initscripts to debianutils
Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra)
tim at famdijkstra.org
Mon Nov 20 22:13:15 CET 2006
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-20
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/mountpoint
I got a strange bug report on my package, which ultimately boiled down
to the fact that the submitter didn't had initscripts installed and
consequently didn't have /bin/mountpoint.
I use mountpoint in the packages config script. Now I could solve this
problem by pre-depending on initscripts, but that seems overkill to me.
Also, although the person who reported this bug turned out
to have a mixed knoppix/debian system, with all these sysvinit
replacements being developed I think initscripts-less systems will
become more common.
udev seems to have the same problem btw...
The best solution seems to me to move mountpoint to debianutils which is
essential=yes, so it is guaranteed to exist and can be safely used in
packages maintainers scripts.
grts Tim
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to nl_NL.utf8)
Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii debianut 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii mount 2.12r-15 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
initscripts recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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