Your message dated Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:55:54 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#1116412: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #770639,
regarding ngetty: /etc/inittab configuration useless with systemd
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
770639: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770639
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: ngetty
Version: 1.1-3
Severity: normal
Systemd does not read /etc/inittab, so switching from sysvinit to
systemd-sysv as PID 1 (e.g. as part of a Wheezy-to-Jessie upgrade) can
disable ngetty.
Getting ngetty to work with systemd would require some kind of custom
/etc/systemd/system/[email protected] to override the default
/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]. (Systemd also seems to create
extra getty processes on demand instead of leaving them taking up
memory all the time, so it may or may not be worth the effort.)
With sysvinit, ngetty is still just as usable as ever, but the package
needs a NEWS.Debian or similar to tell dist-upgrading users that they
may need to reconfigure it if they want it to keep working.
(Or if it's too late to get changes through the freeze, at least it
can be documented here in the BTS.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ngetty depends on:
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ngetty recommends no packages.
ngetty suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ngetty/Conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/ngetty/Conf'
-- no debconf information
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.1-13+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package ngetty has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1116412
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
--- End Message ---
