[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#676473: sysv-rc: give more information on left-behind init.d script while trying to migrate

[Stephan Springl]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-26
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

my system has been running debian for about ten years now.  Once in a time,
I try to resolve a few issues preventing my system to be migrated to
dependency based boot.  Today, I looked at the suggestion
  dpkg --purge initscripts initscripts initscripts lm-sensors
which is not something I wanted to do.  Package initscripts has 24
non-obsolete and three obsolete init.d scripts.  Trying to figure out
which script to delete manually,  it would be really helpful if
sysv-rc.postinst reported the exact filename.  I used the attached
patch to get this behaviour.  Please apply if you consider it reasonable.

Regards
Stephan


diff --git a/debian/sysv-rc.postinst b/debian/sysv-rc.postinst
index 757c85e..48fdbba 100644
--- a/debian/sysv-rc.postinst
+++ b/debian/sysv-rc.postinst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ is_unsafe_to_activate() {
             for initscript in $obsolete_initscripts; do
                 if [ -e "$initscript" ]; then
                     retval=0
-                    add_problematic "package $package left obsolete init.d script behind"
+                    add_problematic "package $package left obsolete init.d script $initscript behind"
                     add_suggestion "$package"
                 fi
             done

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.43
ii  insserv                1.14.0-3
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-26

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian6

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
ii  bum           <none>
ii  sysv-rc-conf  0.99-7

-- debconf information:
* sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
  sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true