[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#586681: initscripts: apt-get dist-upgrade from etch to lenny fails

[Jonathan Nieder]

# fails to upgrade to lenny
severity 586681 grave
reassign 586681 insserv,initscripts
found 586681 insserv/1.12.0-4
found 586681 sysvinit/2.86.ds1-61
fixed 586681 insserv/1.12.0-7
fixed 586681 sysvinit/2.86.ds1-63
tags 586681 + lenny
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Timo Juhani Lindfors]

>>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>>> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package initscripts due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
>>> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove initscripts
>>
>> Looks like a duplicate of #501855
>
> I have no idea what could or should be done about this.  I suspect it
> isn't release critical for Squeeze, as it affect etch->lenny upgrades,
> thought.  Anyone got any idea?

Based on [1], perhaps backporting the change

   * Depend on the initscripts version we want (>= 2.86.ds1-63)
     (instead of conflicting with the version we do not want which can
     give upgrade problems), to get one with the X-Interactive flags

to insserv in lenny would work?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=73;bug=501905