On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:41 +0200, Raphael Wegmann wrote: > Debian Bug Tracking System sagte: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > #322219: sysv-rc: package install requires /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which is > > part of this package, > > which was filed against the sysv-rc package. > > > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > > Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. > > > [...] > > > > Thanks for the report. > > > > Migrating from Knoppix to Debian is not supported. I do not think > > that Debian can be expected to take into account what happens when > > people try to migrate from other distributions. > > -- > > Thomas Hood > > > > Hello. > > I can accept, that you don't support distribution migrations, > but I still think, that it's a bug for a package to require > a program (namely update-rc.d) which is included in the > package itself. The only possiblilty to solve this chicken- > egg problem is to use --force options.
No. Sysv-rc is an essential package (actually "virtually essential"), and installed when you're installing debian for the first time. You cannot remove it, or sysvinit, or any other essential packages. That is unsupported. Not a bug. Also, sysv-rc does not depend on its own update-rc.d. It _does_ link /usr/sbin/update-rc.d to a dummy version from the sysvinit package on package removal, which is needed for a brief moment to keep dpkg happy when you replace sysv-rc with file-rc (or another equivalent package). I think your problem was that you removed sysvinit as well. When you're doing stuff like that, you're working around the packaging system, and you're on your own. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
