[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#652512: initscripts: /lib/init/rw not removed

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 01:50:18AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 00:10 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > This is unfortunately impossible to resolve for wheezy due to the
> > following considerations:
> Well one thing one should then do is add clear information to the NEWS
> file.
> i.e. that if people have fully upgraded everything (or installed this
> package as it breaks/conflicts any not yet migrated packages)... the
> can/should rm -rf /lib/init/rw .

sysvinit (2.88dsf-17) unstable; urgency=low

  In version 2.88dsf-17 of the initscripts package, the /etc/mtab
  file used to record which filesystems are mounted has been replaced
  with a symbolic link to /proc/mounts.

  The tmpfs filesystem mounted on /lib/init/rw has also been removed,
  with all packages using /lib/init/rw having switched to using /run.
  The migration process means that it will not be possible to
  automatically remove the /lib/init/rw directory until after the
  release of wheezy.  However, it is safe to manually remove the
  directory, which is no longer owned by the initscripts package.
  Note that old init scripts in deleted (but not purged) packages may
  continue to use /lib/init/rw; it is recommended that these packages
  be fully purged.

 -- Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org>  Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:24:04 +0000

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Thanks,
Roger

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