[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#550229: sysv-rc: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc finds nonexistent problems

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Francesco Potortì]
> However, it appears that neither bittorrent nor timidity have in fact problems:
> 
> |# dpkg -S /etc/init.d/timidity
> |timidity: /etc/init.d/timidity
> |# dpkg -S /etc/init.d/bittorrent 
> |bittorrent: /etc/init.d/bittorrent

Oh, the problems are real.  The timidity one is #538967, claimed to be
fixed now.  Did not find a bug report for the bittorrent one.  That
one should be reported and fixed.

To find obsolete init.d scripts, use 

  dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' timidity bittorrent

These are init.d scripts that were removed from the package but the
package maintainer forgot to add code in the postinst to remove the
obsolete conffile.  The workaround is to remove them manually.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen