Bug#662588: unhide: incorrect use of alternatives

Julien Valroff julien at debian.org
Fri Mar 9 20:55:36 UTC 2012


Hi Piotr,

Le lundi 05 mars 2012 à 09:09:48 (+0100 CET), Piotr Engelking a écrit :
> The unhide postinst script switches the unhide alternative to manual
> mode, which is a violation of section 3 of the wheezy RC policy. The
> manual mode is provided for the system administrator.
> 
> The use of the alternative is also broken: it decides which binary to
> run based on which kernel was used at the package install time, which
> is not necessarily the kernel that is used at run time.
> 
> Please remove the alternatives. One correct replacement would be to use a
> wrapper to choose the binary. This is, however, no longer necessary, since
> Debian doesn't support pre-2.6 Linux kernels anymore, so a simpler solution
> is to just use the 2.6 features unconditionally on Linux systems.

Thanks for spotting this - will work on this during the week-end, latest
within the end of next week.

Cheers,
Julien

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