On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:39:28AM -0500, Gedalya wrote: > On 11/10/2014 02:19 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >It's not for the sysvinit-core package to fix up the installer's handling of > >consoles, when sysvinit-core is not installed. Reassigning this to the > >debian-installer package. > And how could it possibly be debian-installer's job to modify a file that is > part of your package, when the package is not installed? > I find your response incomprehensible. This bug is about making sure > inittab, part of sysvinit-core, supports the console on the platform is is > running on. > Currently sysvinit-core is defective in not doing so. My comment about > debian-installer was just so that you could see an example for code that > handles this, and it explains why the maintainers of this package > coincidentally haven't had to worry about this problem thus far. > One way or another, to reproduce this problem all one needs to do is to > install sysvinit-core on a xen VM, with debian-installer nowhere in sight. > I also don't understand why #745260 was fixed (exactly the same problem) and > this one somehow not.
Ok, I misunderstood what the bug was that you were reporting. I thought you were saying that the installer sets up /etc/inittab, but that this doesn't cause the console to work on systems where sysvinit-core is not being installed. I think fixing bug #745260 in sysvinit-core is dubious; I really think that the console setup should be done as part of the installer, not as part of init's maintainer scripts. However, since we are no longer installing sysvinit-core, it's a legitimate question whether the installer should be changed to create /etc/inittab on its own if it doesn't already exist, or if the installer should entirely hand over control of this file to the sysvinit package. I think we should get input from the installer team on this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141110184318.ge7...@virgil.dodds.net
