Bug#605662: upgrade-reports: removing splashy prevents booting (#512951)

[Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>]

reassign 605662 release-notes
retitle 605662 release-notes: splasy obsoleted, should be purge prior upgrade
tag 605662 squeeze
thanks

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:52:59AM +0100, Christian Meyer wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> I tried to provide this information to #512951 but it was not possible (fixed
> and archived since over 1 1/2 years).
> 
> during a dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze I removed (but not purged)
> most packages not in squeeze (see #597462: "splashy: Splash screen
> prevents gdm3 start").
> Because of this I got bitten by #512951 which still is in lenny (lenny is
> 0.3.13-3). Since it breaks all initscripts ("return: 24: Illegal number:
> Starting") and leaves the filesystem ro #512951 should be fixed in lenny, too.

The same way usplash has become obsolete (#603728), splashy has been removed
from Squeeze (#599245).

Today, users must remove/purge by themselves the splashy package prior to
upgrade, or they will get issues related to KMS or #512951 (but it may be
fixed through s-p-u).

Indeed, today no package conflits with splashy.

I wonder what is the status of usplash with respect to upgrade, Holger would
you know ?

Best regards,

-- 
Simon Paillard