]] Roger Leigh 

> I'm not sure myself.  Probably because it's potentially dangerous
> since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might
> result in dataloss.  Do you have an example of the virtual
> facility problem?

Why would it want to replace it with a symlink?  AIUI, insserv just
renames the files in /etc/rcN.d ?

For the latter, I seem to have:

: tfheen@qurzaw /etc/init.d > grep Provides bootlog*
bootlogd:# Provides:          bootlogd
bootlogs:# Provides:          bootlogs
bootlogs.sh:# Provides:          bootlogs

which makes it complain about something already provided.

> Both of these are insserv bugs rather than sysv-rc bugs, BTW, so
> reassigning.

Sure.

> > What I'm complaining about is it's continued insistence on trying to
> > convert to another way of ordering the links when it's unable to do so,
> > especially when said complaining is in the form of a debconf error on
> > each and every upgrade of the package.
> 
> Have you observed this on more than one system? 

It complaining repeatedly on upgrade?  That's clearly intentional from
looking at the sysv-rc postinst:

try_to_convert() {
    PROBLEMATIC=""
    if is_unsafe_to_activate ; then
        # Make sure the note is seen every time
        db_fset sysv-rc/unable-to-convert seen false
        db_subst sysv-rc/unable-to-convert PROBLEMATIC "$PROBLEMATIC"
        db_input critical sysv-rc/unable-to-convert || [ $? -eq 30 ]
        db_go || true
        return 1
[…]

> I've not seen either of these problems myself, and I've not seen any
> bugs filed recently about either issue.

There's an old bug filed about it complaining each time, at least.  I
could of course file a new bug, but that'd just be a duplicate, so I
don't. :-)

> There was also a recent insserv update, BTW.  Are both problems still
> reproducible with the current unstable insserv?

No, this is wheezy.  Haven't tried with unstable.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are



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