severity 668312 important thanks On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:27:33PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > sysv-rc uses /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering as a flag file, which is > essentially a state file to know whether to convert to new ordering or > not. It should live in /var/lib/sysv-rc or similar instead. > > If this is meant to be a configuration file, it must not be recreated > after it's deleted. It should probably also not be a hidden file, since > there's no good reason for it.
While I agree it's nasty, it's also in at least one, if not two, stable releases already, and is required to prevent breakage when switching between legacy and dependency based boot ordering. I hope it will be possible to remove post-wheezy (this is one advantage to mandating the use of dependency-based boot--the need to maintain this is no longer present). Downgrading to important for the interim, not because it's not wrong, but because it's been around for a long time, and is already in stable and oldstable. It also remains to be determined if it is safe remove it for wheezy, It will need a check of which other packages are also using it, because we deliberately leave it in place in the postrm. We can certainly remove /our/ use of .legacy-bootordering in the postinst (the check for it can be replaced with a shell function to do the file-rc check). The main other use of it is for after we are removed (according the the comments in the maintainer scripts). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
