block 510033 512821
severity 510033 important
thanks

Since nobody has put in a rebuttal of my analysis, or offered
another suggestion, ...

Policy 10.7.4 says "The related packages _must_ use the provided
program", which I suppose is the justification for the original
"serious" severity level.  But that assumes that the program is
provided, and it is not in this case.  The policy only claims
it "should", as in "The owning package [sysvinit in this case]
_should_ also provide a program", hence the wishlist status
for #512821.

I'd put the severity to normal, except for the "postinst also
uses plain stdout to communicate with the user, not debconf"
part of this bug.

   - Larry



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