[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You *are* allowed to create /etc/inittab when it is missing.

.. but only if it wasn't removed by the sysadmin.  Admin changes must be
preserved, including removal.

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