[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545205: update failure sysvinit/2.87dsf-3 and -4

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bernhard Kleine]
> Hallo, I am still left with an update failure:

Hm, strange.  Must be some new issue.  Can you rerun the reconfigure
like this to get some idea why this fail?

  DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc

I suspect the problem is debconf related.  It would also be nice to
see the output from reconfiguring after adding 'set -x' to the top of
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sysv-rc.postinst.

I will also try to reproduce this here.

> The same is true with 2.87dsf-4.

Very strange.  The error I was aware of was fixed in version
2.87dsf-4.  This must be something new.

> I wonder (since I not at all intimate to the internals of debian)
> why dependency based boot is necessary.  Given that the system has
> been stable for quite some time (even with the SID distribution)

See
<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00003.html>
for some background information.

> this update failure blocks any further updates thus making package
> updating stopping. Is this intential?

Nope, it is not intentional.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen