[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#676463: problematic scripts

[Chris Waters]

This seems to be the source of the problem:

~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles} ${Version}\n' fuse|grep obsolete
/etc/init.d/fuse 453b0e3f3f8facb9efc6cc73df8a7f05 obsolete 2.9.0-1

~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles} ${Version}\n' initscripts|grep obsolete
/etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd 4544c7e1a2d0c713d29424d02faad237 obsolete
/etc/init.d/bootlogd 267ceea04f703171e6c62f506fda3305 obsolete
/etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single 648d8624e708151500c5e299a6005afe
obsolete 2.88dsf-27

I think the problem here comes from the sysv-rc package's assumption that
files marked obsolete must come from packages which have been deleted
but not purged.  This assumption is clearly incorrect, and I recommend
changing it.