Bug#717498: pu: package bootchart/0.10~svn407-4.1~deb7u1

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Andreas Beckmann (2013-07-21):
> the change I suggested for sysvinit (#694252) and got applied in
> sysvinit/2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 does not fix the bootchart upgrade path
> lenny->squeeze->wheezy, but instead renders bootchart uninstallable in
> stable (and sid as well): #717495.
> 
> I'm attaching a suggested patch to fix this upgrade path along with the
> uninstallability. This will work by renaming /etc/init.d/bootchart to
> /etc/init.d/stop-bootchart. As a side effect, the buggy initscript will
> have been renamed to bootchart.dpkg-remove so that it is not considered
> by sysv-rc even if the new one is not yet installed.
> Or is there another possibility to force the new bootchart being
> configured before sysv-rc (without adding a Pre-Depends)?

Needless to say, I'm not impressed by the amount of changes and the
whole lot of possible side effects.

> The fix has not been applied in sid, yet. If the release team considers
> this rename as a possible solution for wheezy, I'll first get this
> applied in sid. I can confirm that this patch fixes the
> lenny->squeeze->wheezy upgrade path if it gets applied to wheezy.

Please stop filing pu requests for bugs that aren't even fixed in
unstable; that's not amusing and wasting everyone's time.

KiBi.