Bug#386905: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386905: sysvinit: Would be nice if update-rd.d-recover was actually there...

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Marc Wilson]
> Sysvinit's changelog implies that the recovery script is shipped by
> that package, not by sysv-rc.

Ah, not I see what you mean.  the sysvinit changelog applies to the
sysvinit source package, which produces three binary packages,
sysvinit, sysv-rc and initscripts.  It does not apply only to the
sysvinit binary package.

> Sysvinit does not depend on sysv-rc... it only has a pre-depends:
> sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-1.2).

Right.  Perhaps we should thighten the dependency.  Will need to think
about that one.

> That's not sufficient to force onto the system a version of sysv-rc
> that will contain the fix.  If sysvinit caused the problem, then it
> should be the solution as well.

Well, it was the sysv-rc binary package that caused the problem, and
because of that I put the fix into it as well.  The NEWS file was
already part of the sysvinit package, and I did not want to create a
new one, so I added an entry to that existing file.  Perhaps that was
a mistake?  I am quite new to handling NEWS files.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen