Bug#923372: e2fsprogs: sharing of /sbin/logsave

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

Control: tags -1 +pending

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:01:52AM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> 
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.44.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> for long time e2fsprogs were essential, and bin:initscripts used
> /sbin/logsave from e2fsprogs. Nowdays, e2fsprogs are not essential,
> so initscripts switched to using /sbin/logsave on best-effort basis (use
> if present), which is suboptimal.
> 
> Upstream maintainer of sysvinit imported sources of logsave from
> e2fsprogs into sysvinit, and now initscripts can again be sure, that
> logsave is present, if we settle question, who will provide
> /sbin/logsave.
> 
> So here I propose, that e2fsprogs no longer installs logsave, and it
> switch owner to bin:sysvinit-utils. Not the best solution, given there
> is desire (but not much of action) of dropping essential flag from
> bin:sysvinit-utils.
> 
> Alternatively, one of us could build bin:logsave.

I've separated logsave out into its own (Priority: optional) package[1];
it's currently pending in the NEW queue as part of the e2fsprogs
1.45.3 release.

[1] 
https://browse.dgit.debian.org/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=bb788de9b021d21686d08366f02415a4c0a91f5e


 - Ted

Bug#923372: e2fsprogs: sharing of /sbin/logsave

[Dmitry Bogatov]

Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.44.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

for long time e2fsprogs were essential, and bin:initscripts used
/sbin/logsave from e2fsprogs. Nowdays, e2fsprogs are not essential,
so initscripts switched to using /sbin/logsave on best-effort basis (use
if present), which is suboptimal.

Upstream maintainer of sysvinit imported sources of logsave from
e2fsprogs into sysvinit, and now initscripts can again be sure, that
logsave is present, if we settle question, who will provide
/sbin/logsave.

So here I propose, that e2fsprogs no longer installs logsave, and it
switch owner to bin:sysvinit-utils. Not the best solution, given there
is desire (but not much of action) of dropping essential flag from
bin:sysvinit-utils.

Alternatively, one of us could build bin:logsave.

Best regards, one of sysvinit Debian maintainers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), 
(1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=eo.utf8, LC_CTYPE=eo.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=eo.utf8 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit)

Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii  libblkid12.33.1-0.1
ii  libc62.28-7
ii  libcom-err2  1.44.5-1
ii  libext2fs2   1.44.5-1
ii  libss2   1.44.5-1
ii  libuuid1 2.33.1-0.1

Versions of packages e2fsprogs recommends:
pn  e2fsprogs-l10n  

Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn  e2fsck-static  
pn  fuse2fs
pn  gpart  
ii  parted 3.2-24

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