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virtuoso-opensource package

  1. Bug #1610241
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1610241

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Mossroy (mossroy) wrote :

A simple way to fix this would be to deploy a newer version of virtuoso-nepomuk for Trusty (or for Xenial, depending on the order of upgrades), with a fixed content in /etc/init.d/virtuoso-nepomuk (the only necessary change is to add the "### END INIT INFO" line).

Another approach would be to be more flexible when reading the /etc/init.d/* files, and assume the "### END INIT INFO" line at the end of the comment lines started by "### BEGIN INIT INFO", if this end line is not there. That would allow to handle this issue on other packages that might be in the same case. I would find that much cleaner, but it might be a bit more difficult.

A completely different approach would be to check the /etc/init.d/* files before starting the upgrade, and prevent the user from starting the upgrade if a non-compliant file is found. Ideally, it would also tell him which package causes the issue, and suggest to remove it.

In any case, leaving an end-user with a half-upgraded system like that is VERY bad.