Re: users shouldn't be responsible for being the first to tell each package maintainer "update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults"
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:13 PM, <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> I also filed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733156
> as a wild guess.
>
> Anyway what needs to be done is
> for(all debian packages){
> if(a new version of this package was released && that version would
> make the above such message appear upon the user's screen upon
> installation){
> file a bug against that package "Dear maintainer, unless you fix
> this, any further releases will startle users with ... message upon
> installation. Yours Truly, Debian Leadership Team."}}
>
> as I don't think all maintainers use lintian / piuparts etc.
Lintian is run by a debian service on lintian.debian.org on the whole
archive, and we could mass bug filling after if needed.
Bastien
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