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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] 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.

/etc/inittab is untracked, which is a shame but fixing it *at this point in
the release schedule* is not going to be fun.

I suppose the package could offer to create it instead of just doing it, and
that might be a convenient middle-ground right now, though.

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