Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, what's the state of this issue? It's over a year without any reaction from the maintainer. Due to the Processing will continue after one minute when invoking update-modules this issue should be fixed at least for Squeeze: [...] Setting up setserial (2.17-45) ... dpkg: warning: obsolete

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Davide Prina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it a bug in module-init-tools, then? If update-modules does No. nothing, it should be removed! IMHO, setserial does the right thing: This would instantly break an unknown number of packages (but feel free to grep the whole archive for

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-11 11:43:59 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: There are no versions of module-init-tools where update-modules is useful, it only had an use in modutils which is old enough that modern packages do not need to care. But setserial does not depend on modutils. If it is based on modutils

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But setserial does not depend on modutils. If it is based on modutils features, it should depend on it. Isn't this an RC bug? If it checks if the script exists before running it, no. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-11 14:27:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 11, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But setserial does not depend on modutils. If it is based on modutils features, it should depend on it. Isn't this an RC bug? If it checks if the script exists before running it, no. But

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 12, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it doesn't work with module-init-tools. So, if it doesn't need to depend on modutils, it should at least conflict with module-init-tools until the bug is fixed, shouldn't it? Are you trying to purposely annoy me or what? (If not, think

Bug#468420: Bug#480630: [module-init-tools] update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-12 00:19:00 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 12, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it doesn't work with module-init-tools. So, if it doesn't need to depend on modutils, it should at least conflict with module-init-tools until the bug is fixed, shouldn't it? Are you