[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#827212: initscripts: upgrade fails because of missing vars.sh

[Michal Politowski]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-59.5

vars.sh got moved to sysvinit-utils but there seems to be nothing
to stop initscripts from upgrading first:

(Reading database ... 169568 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../initscripts_2.88dsf-59.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking initscripts (2.88dsf-59.5) over (2.88dsf-59.4) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-59.5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst: 8: .: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to perform requested operation on package.  Trying to recover:
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-59.5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst: 8: .: Can't open /lib/init/vars.sh
dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initscripts
Press Return to continue.

-- 
Michał Politowski