Bug#687761: pu: package lvm2/2.02.66-5+squeeze1

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 00:01 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Maybe we can revisit this for the next oldstable update.
> There was no feedback from the maintainers, but Pierre Ynard (the
> reporter of #543163) confirmed (see #687761) that he once had a working
> squeeze setup with lvm2 and no udev by removing the initscript
> dependency. (He is tracking unstable nowadays and needs/needed some more
> changes for getting modules loaded, but that's the price for not using
> udev - and seems to be due to his special hardware setup.)
> 
> This change to the initscript won't change anything for existing squeeze
> installations - either they already have lvm2 + udev installed or
> manually changed the conffiles to allow lvm2 without udev.
> But it would simplify my work running (sometimes weird :-) upgrade tests
> to find "interesting" corner cases - lvm2 has a large rdep tree
> requiring a lot of workarounds ...

"The next oldstable update" is now the final update for squeeze. Is this
still an issue in practical terms?

Regards,

Adam