sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.05.2015 um 01:14 schrieb josh at joshtriplett.org:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 07:28:49PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

>> Dropping sysv-rc will be tricky, since it provides update-rc.d and
>> invoke-rc.d.
> 
> Might be possible if we moved towards packages depending on those
> explicitly rather than them being provided by essential or
> quasi-essential packges.  Which would be nice.
>

We have around 1100 packages shipping sysv init scripts.
All of them would be broken if invoke-rc.d/update-rc.d wouldn't be
around, since they use those tools in their maintainer scripts.

I don't think touching 1100 packages to add an explicit dependency on
sysv-rc would be a good idea.


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