Hi,

In 2014, code was added to to the sysvinit-core.postinst to fix up
/etc/inittab files on hurd which had /libexec/getty instead of
/sbin/getty and which were missing the following line:

    c:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console

Also since 2014 (commit 6af0110c) ./debian/share/inittab.gnu is
installed on enduser systems which contains aforementioned fixes
already. The fixup code in sysvinit-core.postinst is thus long obsolete
as any systems that were affected should've long been upgraded and new
systems were installed using inittab.gnu which is not broken.

I prepared a merge request which removes the obsolete code path here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sysvinit/-/merge_requests/12

Removing this old codepath helps with DPKG_ROOT because when creating
chrootless systems, uname -s output is potentially incorrect, for example when
preparing a hurd chroot on linux. See bug #1063624 for a similar instance of
maintainer scripts calling uname causing problems for creating chroots using
the DPKG_ROOT mechanism.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sysvinit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1063629@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org> (supplier of updated sysvinit package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:22:45 +0000
Source: sysvinit
Architecture: source
Version: 3.08-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian sysvinit maintainers <debian-init-diversity@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
Closes: 1060139 1063629 1063639
Changes:
 sysvinit (3.08-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
   * sysvinit-core.postinst: remove code handling /etc/inittab with missing
     entries (Closes: #1063629)
   * initscripts.postinst: avoid calling uname for non-empty DPKG_ROOT
     (Closes: #1063639)
 .
   [ Helmut Grohne ]
   * DEP17: Move files to /usr. (Closes: #1060139)
 .
   [ Mark Hindley ]
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