[PKG-OpenRC-Debian] Bug#817006: ack to NMU

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:31:24PM +0900, Benda Xu wrote:
> Basically, my taking to this bug is to ignore it, leaving the users to
> fix the breakage by
> 
>   dpkg-divert --remove /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
>   dpkg-divert --remove /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
> 
> manually.  
> 
> 0.20.4-1 lasted only 10days.  Only few users would be affected.

The popcon for openrc is 83, which, assuming that 10% of users run popcon
(a wild-ass guess) means 830 users.  I have no idea what part of this is
unstable, but as openrc in Debian is quite experimental, I guess quite a
bunch of such users are affected.

The breakage is pretty severe -- it does match the description of "critical"
after all.  Every affected user would have to research the fix and apply
it manually.  Thus, I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this bug,
especially that the fix is easy.

> That said, I understand theoretically your NMU is the correctly way to
> go.  So if you intend to do so, consider this email as an ack to NMU
> from the maintainer team.

I'll upload it then.

> One thing to notice is that we are tracking the package at
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openrc/openrc.git
> 
> Would you mind if I ask you to prepare a commit to the master
> corresponding to the NMU?

Of course.  I don't have push rights to that repository, so two commits are
attached to this mail (one for the fix, one for changelog).

> BTW, if you are interested in OpenRC, you are welcomed to join the
> maintenance team.

I'm afraid I don't really know inner workings of openrc, I use it on only
one machine (which happens to be my main desktop, but still...).  Everywhere
else I'm on sysv-rc.  This said, keeping openrc viable seems important for
resisting systemd-ization of Debian so I probably should help in _some_ way.

> 1. 0.20.4-1 was uploaded in a hurry to keep itself in testing.  The pts
> system lied and we did not make it.  divert should not have existed in
> OpenRC.

It can be removed in some time, after the affected systems are fixed.


Meow!
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