Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: minor I encountered this bug on Ubuntu 10.04, but the maintainer script in question appears unmodified from Debian.
Basically, the postinst of initscripts appears to copy the contents of /etc/motd into /etc/motd.tail, if it doesn't exist. This appears to be benign on Debian, but on Ubuntu, which will dynamically create an /etc/motd out of shell fragments in /etc/update-motd.d and /etc/motd.tail, it has the undesired effect of caused duplicated stale content. Ubuntu recently pushed an updated initscripts package to 10.04, which caused the problem I describe. More information in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/634387 In short, I don't think the postinst should be creating an /etc/motd.tail if one doesn't exist already. I also don't think it should go putting anything in it if it does exist. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
