[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545293: Bug#545293: sysv-rc: upgrade error: report incomprehensible

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> It mean that the migration is blocked by package foo, which is removed
> but not purged and thus have left behind a script in /etc/init.d. :)

Well, the message says "package FOO removed *by* not purged" instead of
"package FOO is removed *but* not purged".

The current wording confuses even me :)

> Will need proposals on how to make these messages easier to
> understand.  Any ideas?

"script for package FOO disabled because the package was removed but not
purged",  "package FOO is removed but not purged, has inactive initscripts which were
ignored", etc.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh