[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545293: sysv-rc: upgrade error: report incomprehensible

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Arne Anka]
> but that issues report is basically useless, sonce it is in a
> language incomprehensibly to humans:
> 
> package foo removed by not purged, 
> 
> what is that supposed to mean?

It mean that the migration is blocked by package foo, which is removed
but not purged and thus have left behind a script in /etc/init.d. :)

I've added some notes on
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot>
explaining these messages.  I am not sure how to make them clearer.

> from the full report (see below) i gather the problems are related to
> postgresql-8.3, system-tools-backends and virtualbox-ose.
> 
> please fix that description to make people actually understand waht
> happend instead of leaving them frustrated and annoyed with careless
> written messages that cause more issues than the try to solve.

Will need proposals on how to make these messages easier to
understand.  Any ideas?

> The following problems were detected: package postgresql-8.3 removed
> by not purged, package system-tools-backends removed by not purged,
> package virtualbox-ose removed by not purged, insserv: script
> postgresql-8.4: service postgresql already provided!, insserv:
> script postgresql-8.4: service postgresql-8.4 already provided!,

Running 'aptitude purge postgresql-8.3 system-tools-backends
virtualbox-ose' will solve the issues. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen