Bug#1019529: sysv-rc: tries to install lsb-base, but svsinit-utils replaces files

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hello,

Since version 3.05-1, sysvinit-utils provides its own
/lib/lsb/init-functions, thus replacing the one from lsb-base. sysv-rc
is however still depending on lsb-base.

The problem is that apparently debootstrap doesn't handle Replaces, and
thus ends up with

I: Extracting sysvinit-utils...
E: Tried to extract package, but file already exists. Exit...

because it unpacked lsb-base then tried to unpack sysvinit-utils but
that ships a file already shipped by lsb-base. The same happens with
initscripts.

This is basically making any non-systemd debootstrap fail.

Could you please drop the dependency as the attached patch does?

Thanks,
Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii insserv 1.24.0-1
ii lsb-base 11.2
ii startpar 0.65-1
ii sysvinit-utils 3.04-1

sysv-rc recommends no packages.

sysv-rc suggests no packages.

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Samuel
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[Mark Hindley]

Samuel,

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: sysv-rc
> Version: 3.05-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch

Thanks very much for this.

The patch seems fine to me as far as it goes. However your clear analysis
suggests to me that any debootstrap that includes a package with an lsb-base
dependency is also broken.

I will do some testing.

Mark

[Samuel Thibault]

Mark Hindley, le dim. 11 sept. 2022 11:49:07 +0100, a ecrit:

> The patch seems fine to me as far as it goes. However your clear analysis
> suggests to me that any debootstrap that includes a package with an lsb-base
> dependency is also broken.

Yes, but only for the "required" set, so it's not that bad.

Samuel

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le dim. 11 sept. 2022 13:07:28 +0200, a ecrit:

Also the "base" set. Apparently only dirmngr is concerned.

Samuel

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> The problem is that apparently debootstrap doesn't handle Replaces, and

Apparently, it also doesn’t handle Provides (which would fix this).
Sad.

bye,
//mirabilos
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