[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#501662: hal: incorrect upgrade management for removal of runlevel links

[Kel Modderman]

severity 501662 normal
thanks

On Thursday 09 October 2008 21:52:47 Martin Pitt wrote:
> Kel Modderman [2008-10-09 21:08 +1000]:
> > Severity: important
> 
> Given that it doesn't actually break anything, this seems to be a
> little exaggereated.

Okay, reduced as you wish.

> 
> > if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "0.5.11-5"; then
> 
> This must be "lt-nl".
> 
> > 	update-rc.d -f hal remove
> > fi
> 
> That's too blunt. It should at most rm -f the rc{0,6}.d symlinks
> instead of completely stomping over any customizations the admin might
> have done.

Either is crap. But hey, I've proposed a solution for update-rc.d already:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-devel/2008-September/002865.html

Thanks, Kel.