Subject: Debian removed essential startup scripts

From: Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:25:59 +0100

Package: mdadm
Version: 4.2+20230508-2
Severity: critical

With version 4.2+20230227-1, Debian did remove all init scripts
(/etc/init.d/mdadm and /etc/init.d/mdadm-waitidle) for no needs.

This renders all systems that are using md devices unbootable!

-- Package-specific info:

IMPORTANT:
  please do not forget to include all relevant system information with this
  bug report. You could run
    /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script 3>&1
  as root and attach or include the output.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:	5
Codename:	daedalus ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.12 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, 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 mdadm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  eudev [udev]           3.2.12-1
ii  libc6                  2.36-9
ii  libeudev1 [libudev1]   3.2.12-1

Versions of packages mdadm recommends:
ii  kmod  30+20230519-1

Versions of packages mdadm suggests:
iu  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.96-16

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/mdadm [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/mdadm'
/etc/logcheck/violations.d/mdadm [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/logcheck/violations.d/mdadm'

-- debconf information:
  mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errblock:
* mdadm/autocheck: false
  mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errmd:
* mdadm/initrdstart: all
* mdadm/autoscan: true
  mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errexist:
  mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errconf:
  mdadm/autostart: true
  mdadm/initrdstart_msg_intro:
* mdadm/start_daemon: true
* mdadm/mail_to: [email-masked]
  mdadm/initrdstart_notinconf: false
Gruß
   Klaus
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Klaus Ethgen                                       http://www.ethgen.ch/
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