Bug#761878: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#761878: sysv-rc: policy-rc.d should live under /etc

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:57:28 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org>
wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> >> policy-rc.d is supposed to be configured (and thus edited) by the
> >> local admin. It should thus not live in /usr/sbin.
> >
> > It is supposed to be supplied under the Debian alternatives subsystem or
> > something equivalent, which will install a symlink there.  In fact, it will
> > install a symlink to /etc/alternatives/policy-rc.d, which will be another
> > symlink there to the active "alternative".
> 
> But nobody ever does that.
> 
> > The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d symlink would be created and managed by the
> > packages providing policy-rc.d, through /usr/sbin/update-alternatives.  The
> > local admin can do the same if he wants.  Or he can just add a real file in
> > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and update-alternatives should leave it alone.
> >
> > Nobody ever found a reason to package a general-use policy-rc.d, although
> > the feature is directly used by some tools that create private chroots, such
> > as pbuilder.
> 
> That's the most common use (also by d-i as far as I remember). And
> sometimes people write their own policy-rc.d.
> 
> In all cases, it's a configuration choice and not shipped by a package,
> and so belongs below /etc.
> 
> >> Please support using a policy-rc.d located under /etc (and leave
> >> /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as a legacy location).
> >
> > AFAIK, there is no strong technical reason to change the policy-rc.d ABI at
> > this time, so I will downgrade this to wishlist and tag it wontfix.
> 
> Well, it doesn't break any old use. It's an ABI-compatible change ;)
> 

I think /etc/ is a weird place, /usr/local/sbin might be more appropriate.



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