[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#694252: sysv-rc: migration to dependency based boot order fails if bootchart from lenny is still installed

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Roger Leigh]
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Is
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=fbec55b89c25f7a53ba3c84685033a5eb39467c0
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=7c6c86b4eff7d53e005172682847c1c840db05a5
> > 
> > OK with you?
> 
> Note that only purging of packages will remove their /etc/init.d/
> scripts, while conflicts will only remove (and not purge) a package.
> Thus it do not help to conflict with a package that is no longer
> included in Debian.  It need to be manually purged.
> 
> But it might help to Breaks on older versions of a package if a new
> version is available in squeeze, if this make sure the package is
> updated before sysv-rc.
> 
> Thus I suspect conflicting is not having any effect, but the breaks
> might work.

You're right.  I've reverted this part of the change.


Thanks,
Roger

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