[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#545926: kbd: LSB header changes caused a lot of reordering

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Schutte wrote:
> Hi Michael!

Hi Michael ;-)

> [Ccing Petter Reinholdtsen for faster insights]
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:56:49AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> the latest upload which changed the LSB header provides, caused insserv
>> to reorder a lot of stuff. Reading the changelog, this shouldn't have
>> happened, as the X-Start-Before entries should prevent that.
>> So I guess something is fishy
> 
> This doesn’t seem to happen on my system.  Does the reordering break
> anything or add unnecessary annoyances, or is it merely a cosmetic
> issue?

Haven't checked further if it had any negative effects. The machine at least
still boots.

>> I also don't quite understand the reason for this change. Packages which
>> currently depend on console-screen, should they now change that to kbd?
>> That seems broken to me.
> 
> console-tools is finally on its road to be completely replaced by kbd.
> The seven packages which state a “Should-Start: console-screen” will be
> changed soon.  The change of the Provides: word was necessary to make it
> possible to seamlessly install kbd instead of console-tools, but still
> keep both packages in the archive for the time being.

Ok, if console-screen is going away for good and the X-Start-Before "hack" is
only for transitionary purposes, then I guess this is fine.

Cheers,
Michael


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