Re: Andreas Barth 2006-12-16 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > yesterday, I upgraded my notebook to etch. Before that, I moved the
> > > S??openvpn link in /etc/rc2.d to K??openvpn, because I don't use the
> > > VPN at the moment. After the upgrade, the links was back, at S16.
> > 
> >  This doesn't seem to be the correct way to disable an init script.  I
> >  think you should chmod -x the init script or add a policy wrapper.
> 
> Sorry, I disagree. Moving symlinks or simply removing them should work.
> update-rc.d is known to only write if no symlinks exist any more.
> Forcing removals of symlinks on upgrade made this an issue - I fear the
> moval needs to happen more careful than with an upgrade-rc.d -f remove.

Hi,

I think for now the best solution is to let the debconf questions
(actually there's an older one having the same problem) default to
false.

I'll upload the NMU quoted below to delayed/3 so so anyone comes up
with a better solution in the meantime can upload earlier.


debdiff openvpn_2.0.9-2.dsc /srv/pbuilder/result/openvpn_2.0.9-2.1.dsc
 templates |    4 ++--
 changelog |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u openvpn-2.0.9/debian/templates openvpn-2.0.9/debian/templates
--- openvpn-2.0.9/debian/templates
+++ openvpn-2.0.9/debian/templates
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Template: openvpn/change_init
 Type: boolean
-Default: true
+Default: false
 _Description: Would you like to start openvpn sooner?
  Previous versions of openvpn started at the same time as most of other
  services. This means that most of these services couldn't use openvpn
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 Template: openvpn/change_init2
 Type: boolean
-Default: true
+Default: false
 _Description: Would you like to stop openvpn later?
  Previous versions of openvpn stopped at the same time as most of other
  services. This meant that some of services stopping later couldn't use 
diff -u openvpn-2.0.9/debian/changelog openvpn-2.0.9/debian/changelog
--- openvpn-2.0.9/debian/changelog
+++ openvpn-2.0.9/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+openvpn (2.0.9-2.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Default debconf questions about modifying the init script configuration
+    to false in order not to break user config. (Closes: #403317)
+
+ -- Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:42:40 +0100
+
 openvpn (2.0.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Updated Spanish debconf translation. (Closes: #393796)

Christoph
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