Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-18 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
The NEWS.Debian has these instructions on how to fix the broken init.d
links caused by bug #386500:
for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort -u`; do
apt-get --reinstall install -y $p
done
This fails to check if a package has been removed but not purged -- hence
its init.d script exists, but the package is no longer on the system.
In my case, it attempted to reinstall "xfs-xtt", which (due to
conflicting with the current version of X) effectively attempted to
remove every single X-based package on my system (270 packages).
Because of the "-y", no prompt is issued; many packages were removed
before I realised what was going on and aborted it.
(Please let me know if this is the correct severity, BTW. The
instructions may break unrelated packages, but the software / package
itself does not, and only some users will experience this. I was
hesitant to report it at "critical", but deemed it better to risk
crying wolf than to understate the issue.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-18 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30.27-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsepol1 1.12.26-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-18 System-V-like runlevel change mech
sysvinit recommends no packages.
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