Subject: Re: bug#602: /bin/run-parts hardcoded in many scripts but moved to /usr/bin

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

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Klaus,

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:47:06AM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> 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.

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