Re: nut package freeze exception request (dependency based boot)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Anton Martchukov [Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:00:42 +0400]:

> Hello Debian Release Team,

> could you enable freeze exception for nut package?

> There is a small change - removed symlink to init.d script
> that fixes bug when nut package prevented insserv from
> enabling dependency based boot:

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492734

> Dependency based boot is the release goal, so I think that
> freeze exception would be appropriate.

Wow. I'm not very knowledgeable on the matter, but after looking a bit
around, I would say it is not okay to just remove that symlink.

There's an "ups-monitor" virtual package defined in Policy, and
apparently all packages providing it ship /etc/init.d/ups-monitor, and
searching on the net one can find various bits of documentation
referring to that file.

I'm CC'ing -devel (and dropping -release via a Bcc) to see if there's
somebody around who knows more about this.

If nobody is, my take is that this nut upload is gratuitously breaking a
traditional interface, and I don't think that should be done just to
please insserv. Looks to me like insserv should be fixed instead...
(CC'ing maintainer as well.)

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