[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#737184: No longer reads /etc/sysctl.conf, please provide compat symlink

[Michael Biebl]

Package: procps
Version: 1:3.3.9-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

sysctl --system (as used in /etc/init.d/procps) no longer processes
/etc/sysctl.conf.

The corresponding systemd tool had a similar change in v207.
I'm copying here the rational for this change from the systemd
changelog:


        * The systemd-sysctl tool no longer natively reads the file
          /etc/sysctl.conf. If desired, the file should be symlinked
          from /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf. Apart from providing
          legacy support by a symlink rather than built-in code, it
          also makes the otherwise hidden order of application of the
          different files visible. (Note that this partly reverts to a
          pre-198 application order of sysctl knobs!)


Since procps is the package shipping /etc/sysctl.conf, such a
/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink is probably best shipped in the
procps package.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  initscripts   2.88dsf-45
ii  libc6         2.17-97
ii  libncurses5   5.9+20140118-1
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20140118-1
ii  libprocps3    1:3.3.9-2
ii  libtinfo5     5.9+20140118-1
ii  lsb-base      4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc  22.20-1

procps suggests no packages.

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