Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:02:06 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I find this strange, since every system that has ever been etch will > > have at least libdevmapper1.02 which stops insserv from migrating. > Judging from further discussion, it looks like the reason why I've never > seen this is that I routinely purge deinstalled packages on all my > systems and most of the problems are with packages that have been > deinstalled but not purged and have obsolete init scripts. I wonder if we > should suggest people consider doing that before the upgrade if they don't > have any old configuration files around that they care about. Now that Adam mentioned it I remember that I at least met this removed-but-configured libdevmapper1.02 on each machine which tried to convert to dependency based init scripts. (I think most other issues I had came from home-grown init scripts without LSB headers. -- And I also tend to purge removed packages; but not packages that were both installed and removed automatically ...) Suggesting to purge libdevmapper1.02 and maybe other removed/configured packages in the release notes' "preparation" section might indeed be helpful. Cheers, gregor, cc'ing the BTS -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Simply Red: Holding Back The Years
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