Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few
> > > days ago, which makes ucf quasi-essential.
>
> > Unless you are going to argue to add it to the essential set, I can't
> > see why that matters. It's still wrong to use non-essential packages
> > in postrm unconditionally. One could even argue that an essential
> > package should not use ucf unconditionally and have a sane fall back
> > when it's not available.
>
> Well, I would argue that packages in the essential set shouldn't be adding
> new dependencies without some discussion and review on debian-devel first.
Hopefully we can remove the ucf dependency; please see #648433.
Currently /etc/default/rcS is intentionally only installed once
during a fresh install, and never updated afterward. However,
this precludes ever updating it. Ideally we could make it a
conffile and handle it entirely with dpkg; this would probably
require splitting out the variables which should never be touched
into a separate file under /etc/defaults.
Regards,
Roger
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