Subject: /bin/run-parts hardcoded in many scripts but moved to /usr/bin

From: Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:47:06 +0200

Package: debianutils
Version: 5.0.1-1
Severity: critical

/bin/run-parts is hardcoded in many scripts. Version 5.0.1-1 moved it to
/usr/bin which breaks most of the system including network, wdm and many
more.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:	4
Codename:	n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.13.4 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii  libc6  2.31-15

debianutils recommends no packages.

debianutils suggests no packages.

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:40:01 +0100

Control: -1 tags debian moreinfo

Klaus,

> /usr/bin which breaks most of the system including network, wdm and many

Thanks for this. Debianutils is not a forked package and Devuan uses Debian's
packages directly without recompilation. Therefore, in principle, this should be
reported to Debian's BTS to be fixed there.

Debian has just released Bullseye and therefore there are going to be many
uploads to unstable which may be *much* more unstable than of recent.

I suspect the Debian maintainer's answer may be that this merely uncovers a bug
in the packages which hardcode /bin/run-parts and you should bug them
directly. Do you have specific examples?

Thanks

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:01:20 +0100

tags 602 debian moreinfo

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From: Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:29:36 +0100

Hi Mark,

> reported to Debian's BTS to be fixed there.

That is true. But from the fact that Michael Biebl did this (both)
incompatibilities and that he does not care about anything else than
systemd, I will never ever again file a bug report in debian itself.

Michael Biebl, who is one of the main problems regarding the whole
systemd trouble, is no one I want to get frustrated with anymore!

> directly.

As told above, I think he will just ignore it and close it as wontfix as
he does it usually.

> Do you have specific examples?

Not easy to find. The scripts seem to be ok but not the binaries.

One (and the essential one) is ifupdown. After the update, I end without
network therefore. One another is, as you already wrote, x11. And there
seems to be one with cryptsetup or btrfs-tools as I got some error
messages about not supported CPU feature, which is not correct. But the
last could also be accourding to tempfile.

Regards
   Klaus

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:11:08 +0200

link /usr/bin/run-parts to /bin/run-parts

[xorg was fixed (bug: #992385,
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992385) had also an
issue with debianutils like run-parts]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:05:20 +0200

with debianutils (5.2-1) the issue is resolved

[symlink can be removed]

[debian bug #992410,
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992410]

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:31:25 +0000

Version: 5.6-0.1