Subject: bug#709 closed by Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> (Fixed in Debian #1019661)

From: "Devuan bug Tracking System" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:04:04 +0000

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#709: sb-base: latest version of lsb-base has removed critical files, breaks init system

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Subject: Fixed in Debian #1019661
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:02:00 +0000

Version: 11.4

Subject: sb-base: latest version of lsb-base has removed critical files, breaks init system
From: Kristof Csillag <[email-masked]>
To: Devuan Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:51:19 +0200

Package: lsb-base
Version: 11.3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]

lsb-base 11.1.0 used to contain /lib/lsb/init-functions, which is used 
by most
scripts in in /etc/init.d.

lsb-base 11.3 has removed this directory, it's an empty package.

This breaks most of the init scripts, resulting in an unbootable system.

I have seen this happening in the wild.

This is not an issue in Debian, where there are no /etc/init.d scripts
depending on lsb/init-functions, but Devuan systems should not install this
version of the package.

Since this can break boxes, I suggest an urgent fix.

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

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled