[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385722: please consider splitting off sysvutils

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

tags 385722 - pending
thanks

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I've tested this package split with debootstrap, and it had no
> problem handling it.  Because of this, I've commited the change to
> svn to have it included in the next upload.

I did some more testing, trying to upgrade the package using 'dpkg
-i', and ran into serious problems.  It refuses to upgrade because
sysvinit pre-depend on sysvutils, which include a file already in the
old/existing sysvinit.  I suspect the pre-depend is the problem.  I am
not sure exacly how to fix this, and am removing the patch from svn
while we look into this issue a bit more.

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen