On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:18:08PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > 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. > [...] > > > 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 > > sysvinit is currently at 9/10 days and about to migrate to testing. > If these two controversial changes (initscripts adding dependency on ucf > (which becomes transitively-essential), updating rcS on upgrade) should > not find their way into testing (in the current form), action should be > taken now.
I won't have time to do anything about it personally until the weekend. Not that this is IMO a massively urgent problem--we can remove the use of ucf any time. What I would like to know in order to fix the problem properly, is which variables in /etc/default/rcS can't ever be in a conffile, and which ones can. Because right now it's a mixture, and I'd like to separate them. If it's just UTC that's the problem, I think splitting it into e.g. /etc/default/hwclock would be the appropriate solution, then /etc/default/rcS could become a regular conffile and ucf can be dropped 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/20120210090804.gn8...@codelibre.net
