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

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sat Jul 19 11:42:59 UTC 2014


Control: tags -1 + wontfix

On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 20:15 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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?

That final update has now happened, so we can no longer update packages
in squeeze (other than via -lts); I'm going to close this bug now.

Regards,

Adam




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