Re: Conf insserv broken
On 2009-09-06 21:47 +0200, Stefaan Himpe wrote:
> When I do apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate, I get the following warnings:
>
> Inst insserv [1.12.0-10] (1.12.0-11 Debian:unstable) [insserv on sysv-rc] []
> Conf insserv broken
> Breaks:sysv-rc
> []
>
> and
>
> E: Conf Broken insserv
>
>
> The error message looks scary... is it the case that insserv is
> intended to replace sysv-rc and that this message is in fact just
> warning for that?
There is a dependency problem, the new sysv-rc depends on the new insserv,
but that package breaks the old sysv-rc. There surely is a reason for
that, but I don't know all the details.
> Or should I be very afraid now of actually dist-upgrading my system?
IIRC, when I did it, dpkg told me that it deconfigured sysv-rc because
of the "Breaks" field (I think apt passes "--force-breaks" to dpkg).
This was only temporary, and after the new insserv package was
configured, sysv-rc was also configured again.
Given that the old sysv-rc package has no prerm script that could do
nasty things when dpkg deconfigures the package, there is probably
little to worry about.
Sven
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