[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Should we warn our users of the current breakage in unstable, and how to repair it?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> I was spared the breakage, because right now I can really only do email
> work.   But from the outside, it looks like we really outght to send a
> message to debian-devel at l.d.o and debian-user at l.d.o warning people of the
> danger, like the X guys did.

Yes, I agree.  I have thought of doing this, but focused on fixing
bugs instead up to now.

> Also, I understand anyone who installed the broken packages may have
> had their sysv linkfarm damaged, which requires that we either add
> repair code (if that can be done safely, which I bet it is not
> exactly trivial), or that we warn people of the issue in
> NEWS.Debian, d-devel at l.d.o, d-user at l.d.o, and also tell them how to
> repair their systems.

I have no idea how to repair it.  Yes, we should include such info in
the annoucement.

> Sorry about actually asking about the issue instead of sending the
> emails myself and commiting the changes myself, but I really won't
> have the required access to do it until saturday at the very least.

I got the access, but am not quite sure what to write in such
annoucement.  Would very much like some help on that.

I plan to do a new upload in a few hours, so the text should be in
place before that.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen