[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#399608: /bin/mountpoint: Move /bin/mountpoint from initscripts to debianutils

[Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra)]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-20
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/mountpoint


I got a strange bug report on my package, which ultimately boiled down
to the fact that the submitter didn't had initscripts installed and
consequently didn't have /bin/mountpoint. 

I use mountpoint in the packages config script. Now I could solve this
problem by pre-depending on initscripts, but that seems overkill to me.
Also, although the person who reported this bug turned out
to have a mixed knoppix/debian system, with all these sysvinit
replacements being developed I think initscripts-less systems will
become more common.

udev seems to have the same problem btw...

The best solution seems to me to move mountpoint to debianutils which is
essential=yes, so it is guaranteed to exist and can be safely used in 
packages maintainers scripts.

grts Tim

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to nl_NL.utf8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianut 2.17                            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-7                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base 3.1-15                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount    2.12r-15                        Tools for mounting and manipulatin

initscripts recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information