[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#825937: sysvinit-utils: Please drop startpar dependency

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 patch

Martin Pitt [2016-06-03 12:09 +0200]:
> > Could you please drop the dependency which AFAICS was only necessary for
> > smooth upgrades from Wheezy to Jessie?  It seems sufficient that sysv-rc
> > depends on startpar.

> So IMHO we should move the dependendy to either sysvinit-core or
> initscripts, both of which can be (now or soon) uninstalled on a
> system with systemd-sysv. I think moving it to sysvinit-core is
> conceptually "more correct".

This wasn't correct after all -- sysv-rc can be replaced with openrc
or file-rc, in neither case startpar is needed. So leaving it at
sysv-rc and dropping it from sysvinit-utils is correct indeed.

Trivial patch attached.

Note that I'd like to NMU this together with bug #826205. While this
is just cleanup, #826205 is to avoid breakage once procps gets
uploaded and initscripts' priority gets dropped so that it drops from
the default install.

Thanks,

Martin
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