Bug#829649: lintian: Spurious error: init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:05:25 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 22:27:20 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez"
> <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 2.5.45
> > Severity: normal
> >
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> > In preparing a new upstream release of the shorewall-init package, I
> > found that lintian gave the following errors:
> >
> > E: shorewall-init: init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs etc/init.d/shorewall-init: required-start
> > E: shorewall-init: init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs etc/init.d/shorewall-init: required-stop
> >
> > I checked with upstream was informed that shorewall-init doesn't work
> > with NFS mount /usr and so assumes /usr is accessible without the need
> > for $remote_fs in Required-Start and Required-Stop.  I inquired in
> > #debian-devel on OFTC about this to see if it was OK to override.  I was
> > told that this error is spurious as initramfs now mounts /usr and was
> > suggested to file a bug report against lintian.
> >
> 
> Moreover, booting without /usr mounted is now officially[1]
> unsupported, so there is no point in playing /-/usr whack-a-mole.
> 
> 
> [1] #830829
> 
> Saludos
> 
> 

Hi,

Should we remap this as a check for "$local_fs" or can people assume
that /usr is always present?  Currently, use of /var needs "$local_fs".

Thanks,
~Niels