[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#706440: uninitialized value in update-rc.d script

[Jakub Wilk]

Control: found -1 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1
Control: found -1 2.88dsf-41

* Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>, 2013-05-09, 03:01:
>>Could you let me know which version of sysv-rc you have installed?
>>The output of
>>
>>   dpkg -s sysv-rc
>>
>>will tell you if it's installed, and if so what version it is.

It's been broken at least since squeeze.

>I found what seems like an instance of this issue with a recent update 
>of qemu-system-x86,a although the line is different, so these might be 
>actually different. Here's the output:
>
>,---
>Setting up qemu-system-x86 (1.5.0~rc0+dfsg-1) ...
>Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 536.
>update-rc.d: warning:  start runlevel arguments (none) do not match qemu-system-x86 Default-Start values (S)
>`---

It's the same problem. I've filed a bug against qemu-system-x86 too 
(#709199), because of course it shouldn't call update-rc.d that way.

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Jakub Wilk