[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#754063: Bug#754063: initscripts: no longer depends on ifupdown

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Steve Langasek's message of Mon Jul 07 18:33:23 +0200 2014:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:25:36AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:07:10AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > Package: initscripts
> > > Version: 2.88dsf-53.2
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> > > I upgraded initscripts which no llonger depend on ifupdown.
> 
> > > Hence I have no networking on next boot.
> 
> > > IMHO this renders the initscripts unusable for 90% of users.
> 
> > The git history shows that ifupdown has never been a dependency of the
> > initscripts package.  And there's no reason that initscripts should be
> > responsible for pulling this package onto the system; and upgrading
> > initscripts should not cause ifupdown to be *removed* from the system
> > either.
> 
> > So why do you think this is an initscripts bug?
> 
> Looking further, I see that the initscripts in unstable declares a Breaks:
> on the version of ifupdown in stable.  So it's certainly possible that if
> you were installing initscripts by hand on a stable system, ifupdown would
> be removed.  Is this what you did?

Yes, I was trying latest initscripts because currently some scripts do
not run after installing systemd.

The current initscripts do not resolve the problem but cause ifupdown to
be removed.

Presumably on dist-upgrade ifupdown will be upgraded rather than removed
so this is only problem when trying separate packages.

Thanks

Michal