Package: manpages Version: 3.42-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The handling of /etc/motd in wheezy has changed appreciably compared to squeeze. It would be great if motd(5) and motd.tail(5) could be updated accordingly for wheezy. The relevant changelog entry is: sysvinit (2.88dsf-24) experimental; urgency=low [ Roger Leigh ] * initscripts: - Don't generate or touch /etc/motd. Instead, the dynamic part of /etc/motd is created as /run/motd.dynamic, leaving /etc/motd entirely under the control of the system administrator. If /etc/motd is a symlink to /run/motd, /etc/motd.tail is moved back to /etc/motd. Closes: #353229, #624391, #668307. /etc/motd is not removed if initscripts is purged, since it's not owned by initscripts. - By default, /run/motd is just the output of uname, preserving the existing behaviour. However, should the administrator wish to include dynamic information in the motd, they may write scripts to update /run/motd.dynamic as they please. Closes: #437176. - motd generation is split from bootlogs into a separate motd init script. Looking at /etc/init.d/motd, I think references to /run/motd above should actually be /run/motd.dynamic. motd.tail(5) can just be deleted. cheers Stuart -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (550, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash manpages depends on no packages. manpages recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages suggests: ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:4.8.4-1 ii man-db [man-browser] 2.6.2-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org