Bug#544558: mdadm: Use of idiom in postrm script

Simon Waters simon at technocool.net
Tue Sep 1 14:21:19 UTC 2009


Package: mdadm
Version: 2.6.7.2-3
Severity: minor


Purging mdadm results in the idiomatic warning "you'll be screwed!" if you use mdadm for booting.

Might I suggest "your system may be unable boot" or similar.

file: debian/mdadm.postrm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mdadm depends on:
ii  debconf                   1.5.24         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  makedev                   2.3.1-88       creates device files in /dev
ii  udev                      0.125-7+lenny1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages mdadm recommends:
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1  High-performance mail transport ag

mdadm suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded





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