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

[Kel Modderman]

On Friday 10 October 2008 02:17:10 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Kel Modderman schrieb:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Unfortunate as it may sound, imho the best we can do atm is to support
> sysvinit only. We (i.e. the pkg-utopia group) used the remove/insert
> approach in avahi and what this has led us, ist that our RM filed a
> serious [1] bug against the package when I asked for a unblock request.
> So I'm pretty sure they won't accept it for hal either.

Your gonna do rm -f /etc/rc[06].d/K??hal, right?

I only suggested the update-rc.d remove/update-rc.d insert as a possibility,
not make a patch and stake my name on it :) The lack of interface for this is
killing us ...

Thanks, Kel.