On Sat, 21 May 2016 19:09:38 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Just a little heads up, as I noticed this bug was tagged pending.
> I recently dropped the (indirect) initscripts dependency from util-linux
> and ran into some issues, which I'm now carrying a workaround for in
> util-linux:
> http://sources.debian.net/src/util-linux/2.28-5/debian/util-linux.postinst/#L15
>
> The problem is that when dropping the dependency you're also dropping
> the ordering of which packages might become configured.  This means
> debootstrap might decide to configure your package before it configures
> initscripts (which is still installed in default installations even if
> noone depends on it because of it's priority field). If your package
> becomes configured it'll call out (indirectly) to insserv which does not
> like to configure things which has LSB header dependencies on other
> things which has not yet been run over by insserv.  Only very few
> packages will likely run into this issue but I think it might be worth
> to know about for procps.... A generic solution is in the works, see
> https://bugs.debian.org/824804
>
> Hopefully procps is not affected by this, but might be worth stalling
> the next upload until 824804 is fixed (and bump versioned dependency
> on init-system-helpers to the fixed version?!).

This has been fixed now in i-s-h 1.36, so there should be no blocker
to go ahead.


Saludos

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