[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r496 - sysvinit/trunk/debian

[Thomas Hood]

Author: jdthood-guest
Date: 2006-01-01 22:46:38 +0000 (Sun, 01 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 496

Modified:
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES
Log:
Add NOTE about dependencies

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES	2006-01-01 22:26:13 UTC (rev 495)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES	2006-01-01 22:46:38 UTC (rev 496)
@@ -39,3 +39,22 @@
 debian/fscklog.sh is a proposed script for rotating the fsck log.
 Currently, we overwrite the log files on every boot so there is
 no need to rotate them.
+
+dependencies
+------------
+sysvinit Pre-Depends on initscripts, sysv-rc | file-rc so that the
+conffiles in the old monolithic sysvinit package are taken over by
+the initscripts package.  (Only a Pre-Depends is strong enough to 
+ensure that the conffiles are taken over without an orphanic hiatus.)
+Strictly speaking we can drop this dependency now since everyone is
+either installing anew or else has upgraded to sarge; and Debian does
+not support skip upgrades.  However, I don't see any harm in keeping
+this dependency around until after etch releases.  But then it should
+definitely go away.
+
+initscripts has strange Dependencies ${glibc:Depends}, ${mount:Depends}
+which resolve to the null string.  I'd like to remove these.
+
+These packages have ceased to exist and we continue to Replace and Conflict
+with them in order to force them off systems: last, mdutils, libc0.1.
+