[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Processed: Re: Bug#494001: debian-installer: /etc/mtab must be a symlink to /proc/mounts with linux >= 2.6.26

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 21 March 2009 23:04:00 Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:10:58PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > BTW, if you don't agree with the rationale in my previous mail, let
> > > me know and I'll redo the patch to do the version check in mtab.sh.
> > > The overall concensus on #debian-devel was to just kill it, though.
> > 
> > I just need to know WHAT is supposedly to make squeeze incompatible with
> > the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, to make an informed decision :)
> 
> I just saw your reply on -devel.  I'm guessing it's udev; not something
> I'm totally happy about, but I guess systems using it are the exception
> nowadays.
> 
> I've attached a new patch which removes the version check, but keeps
> the kernel check intact.  It also removes the conffiles in postrm.

I updated your patch to remove /etc/init.d/mtab.sh from disk and clean up
a couple of things (no whitspace change in postrm, unrelated update-rc.d purge
of hostname.sh in postinst). Please take a look, I'd like to apply it to
the package vcs.

> 
> I did see in the postrm that you are removing the conffile and
> conffile.dpkg-old.  You are, however, not removing conffile.dpkg-new
> or conffile.dpkg-dist.  Is this indentional or just an omission?

I think it only cares about the orignial file or locally modified backups
created by the eliminate_conffile() function in initscripts.preinst.

Thanks, Kel.
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