[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#744398: startpar modifies /etc/init/startpar-bridge.conf

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Donnerstag, 17. April 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Looking at the debsums bugs, I suspect this is the same problem
> reported in <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/689508 > on 2012-10-03.

yes, #744398 indeed seems to be caused by #689508. Thanks for digging that up!
 
> The problem at hand now is that sysvinit-utils owned the conffile
> /etc/init/startpar-bridge.conf, which was migrated to the startpar
> package and changed there.  This causes debsums to claim the file was
> changed, because dpkg claim both packages own the file now,
> sysvinit-utils with an obsolete ownership, and startpar with a current
> ownership.  I believe it should ignore the obsolete file and only look
> at the check sum of the current file.

Right. For the time being I'm considering ignoring changes in 
/etc/init/startpar-bridge.conf with piuparts....


cheers,
	Holger


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