Bug#230857: libc6: remove /etc/default/{devpts,tmpfs} etc

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

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Thomas Hood wrote:
| Your patch shows the trouble you have to go to if you choose not
| to Depend on the new initscripts.  Is there some reason why the
| new libc6 should _not_ Depend on the new initscripts?
Indeed, after going to the trouble of constructing the thing, I agree
with you; it's *much* more appropriate, and reliable, to add a versioned
dependency on initscripts.

| I don't think your patch does the right thing.  If devpts.sh exists
| and mountvirtfs does not yet exist at the time libc6.preinst runs
| then the former gets renamed to the latter.  Because mountvirtfs is
| a conffile, when initscripts is upgraded, dpkg will ask the user
| whether or not the new maintainer version of the file should be
| installed.  I don't see the point of that; mountvirtfs should simply
| be installed without asking and devpts.sh should be disabled and
| renamed to *.dpkg-old or whatever.
You're probably right.  :-)
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