[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#573550: affects squeeze, package has only been updated in testing

[Tim Connors]

reopen 573551
thanks

The fix in 2.6.4-1 in testing is all well and good, but the bug applies to
stable.  Stable has the removed "update-rc.d stop" feature, and so in
stable, I can't actually convince puppet to ensure the service is stopped.

Ideally, update-rc.d wouldn't have completely removed a feature (failing
silently) that hadn't even been flagged as deprecated (as far as I'm
aware) in oldstable, without providing any forwards or backwards
compatibility (in oldstable, you can't run 'update-rc.d disable' because
that doesn't exist, and in stable, you can't run 'update-rc.d stop'
because it silently fails to do anything useful.  Who thought that would
be a good idea?

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