Bug#621077: keyboard-configuration: postinst script needs initscripts to be installed

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr  6, 2011 at 12:41:35 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> Package: keyboard-configuration
> Version: 1.68
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> when installing keyboard-configuration on a system without the initscripts package
> installed I get the following error:
> 
> Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.72) ...
> insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service keyboard-setup
> insserv: exiting now!
> update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
> dpkg: error processing keyboard-configuration (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> mountkernfs is provided by the initscripts package so keyboard-configuration should
> either depend on initscripts or not fail without it, right?
> 
sysvinit is Essential: yes and Pre-Depends on initscripts.  So you tried
very hard to not have it installed...

Cheers,
Julien