On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few > > > days ago, which makes ucf quasi-essential. > > > Unless you are going to argue to add it to the essential set, I can't > > see why that matters. It's still wrong to use non-essential packages > > in postrm unconditionally. One could even argue that an essential > > package should not use ucf unconditionally and have a sane fall back > > when it's not available. > > Well, I would argue that packages in the essential set shouldn't be adding > new dependencies without some discussion and review on debian-devel first.
Hopefully we can remove the ucf dependency; please see #648433. Currently /etc/default/rcS is intentionally only installed once during a fresh install, and never updated afterward. However, this precludes ever updating it. Ideally we could make it a conffile and handle it entirely with dpkg; this would probably require splitting out the variables which should never be touched into a separate file under /etc/defaults. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120131220722.gz8...@codelibre.net
