[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#806438: Bug#806438: update-rc.d: Do not fail when initscripts is not installed

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 23:59:12 +0100 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
wrote:

> I would like to ensure the package maintainer and all the package users
> detect incorrect boot script dependencies as early as possible,
> preferably before the package is uploaded or at least as soon as it is
> unloaded to unstable.

I think this is a reasonable request, simply so the existing sysv init
script don't start to bit rot.

That said, the current approach to let it fail during installation only
tests this to a very limited degree. After all, the package maintainer
usually only has a very small subset of the Debian archive installed
(and that's true for most of our users as well)

Wouldn't it be much better, if we had some automated archive wide
testing for this, say on ci.debian.net, where you could test arbitrary
package combinations and where it would be simple to run insserv in
enforcing mode?

Outputting some warnings in big fat letters in -f mode, as Felipe
suggested, seems like a sensible thing to do. If the package maintainer
installs the package before uploading (which he should usually do) he
would be able to catch the error.

Regards,
Michael

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