Hello Josh Triplett (and #753779)! I've just spent a few minutes revisiting the idea of shipping mountpoint in util-linux. I'll do my best to make that happen as soon as Stretch development cycle opens up.
I'm guessing your interest in this is that you might want to purge the "initscripts" package? I've looked a bit at right now and that seems a bit more problematic. The reason packages depends on initscripts is not only mountpoint, but also because of LSB init script header dependencies. See for example https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581420 which talks about this for the hwclock.sh init.d script shipped in util-linux. There are also several other packages shipping an init script with LSB header depending on init scripts from "initscripts". (systemd itself might be able to drop its initscripts dependency, but other packages in the base system will still pull in initscripts for you. c.f. procps, etc.) At first I had the idea that, ok maybe all packages can just change to depend on 'initscripts | systemd-sysv'. Unfortunately that can break the case where you have systemd-sysv installed but boot with "init=/lib/sysvinit/init" on the command line (and not have initscripts installed). While I'm interested in having a "legacy-free system" (no sysvinit parts lingering) I think accomplishing that might be hard to implement in a way thats acceptable for Debian or atleast too much trouble for what it's worth. If you're interested in coming up with a solution for this that would be very welcome! Regards, Andreas Henriksson PS. I'll be closing this bug as soon as /bin/mountpoint is shipped by util-linux. Feel free to file a separate bug about initscripts dependency if you're interested, but please include a way to actually solve getting rid of the dependency if you do file it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
