The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

[Gerrit Pape]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:24:11AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:08:49PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On 24/11/14 21:41, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > > Better than (2) would be to make the existence of /etc/inittab still
> > > essential for jessie, by moving the corresponding code from
> > > sysvinit-core into the essential init package.  What do you think?
> > 
> > If you go this route, I think initscripts might be a better home for
> 
> As I wrote above, I actually don't have the time to go any road at all.
> 
> The packages worked just fine until I learnt that support for the
> inittab interface is dropped in jessie.  I fixed the packages.  Now I
> learnt that the existence of /etc/inittab is no longer essential, next
> thing breaking my packages - when switching jessie to sysvinit.
> 
> Please advise whether I should reassign this release critically to the
> init and sysvinit packages, or upload the ugly workaround to copy
> sysvinit maintainer script code for generating /etc/inittab into the two
> affected packages.

Hi init and sysvinit maintainers, it looks like I don't get reasonable
advise on debian-devel.

What is your stand on this?

Regards, Gerrit.