Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> Steve Langasek writes: > SL> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote: > >>El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió: > >>> It most certainly is a policy violation. A packag

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-25 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Steve Langasek writes: SL> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote: >>El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió: >>> It most certainly is a policy violation. A package is not allowed to edit >>> a conffile, *ever*. >>I didn't know it

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote: > El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió: > > It most certainly is a policy violation. A package is not allowed to edit > > a conffile, *ever*. > I didn't know it :-S, sorry. Though looking at sysv-rc pack

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-23 Thread Pablo Chinea
El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió: > It most certainly is a policy violation. A package is not allowed to edit > a conffile, *ever*. I didn't know it :-S, sorry. Though looking at sysv-rc package I see /etc/init.d/rc is not classified as conffile. Anyway, I bel

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:20:00AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote: > El Viernes, 22 de Septiembre de 2006 21:12, Julien Cristau escribió: > > ...postinst uses patch to modify /etc/init.d/rc... > This file MUST be patched in order to show the progress bar, this isn't a > policy violation. It most ce

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-23 Thread Pablo Chinea
El Viernes, 22 de Septiembre de 2006 21:12, Julien Cristau escribió: > ...postinst uses patch to modify /etc/init.d/rc... This file MUST be patched in order to show the progress bar, this isn't a policy violation. > ...that the maintainer scripts fail if you run them twice... Try with 'apt-

Bug#388838: sysv-rc-bootsplash: modifies files belonging to other packages

2006-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: sysv-rc-bootsplash Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: serious sysv-rc-bootsplash's postinst uses patch to modify /etc/init.d/rc and /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions. This means that the changes are lost if sysv-rc or initramfs-tools is upgraded, that the maintainer scripts fail if yo