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sysvinit package

  1. Bug #659738
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 659738

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 659738] Re: Duplicate welcome message in motd (caused by postinst script creating motd.tail file)

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:51:58PM -0000, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > that the approach in the debdiff I attached here in
> > comment #23 is the safest way to go.

> In that case, you might want to add a brief mention in the changelog
> entry that people who are already seeing the "doubled" messages can fix
> them by removing/emptying the motd.tail file manually....

We had code once before to fix up the doubled messages; we should apply that
code in this SRU as well. I think it's just changing a version check in the
postinst.

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