[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#619785: Please move logsave to sysvinit-utils

[Carsten Hey]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Severity: wishlist


* Ted Ts'o [2011-03-26 19:07 -0400]:
> There are similar, although less serious, issues with filefrag -v
> (which will work on other file systems), but which also has some
> ext2/3/4 specific code it in.

badblocks is also linked against libext2fs.


> Another binary which is used by other packages includes the logsave
> utility, which is also in e2fsprogs, and which is used by
> /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh and /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh in the initscripts
> package.

Debian supports (or rather will probably support) three init systems:

 * systemd does not use logsave to save the fsck log if /var/log is not
   mounted yet, but instead "just pipes the stdout of fsck to syslog
   which ends up in dmesg if syslog is not yet running" (thanks to
   whoever explained this in #systemd).

 * sysvinit and upstart depend on the package initscripts, which depends
   on sysvinit-utils.


logsave does not use any libraries except libc.  Provided that Ted Ts'o
agrees, please consider moving logsave to sysvinit-utils.


Regards
Carsten

P.S.: There is already a bug about essentialness filed against
      e2fsprogs: #474540