[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: Bug#513955: debian-policy: do not require /etc/init.d/*.sh scripts to be sourced

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> writes:
> 
>> It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the
>> sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no
>> longer relevant and should be removed:
>>
>> """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in
>> runlevel S rather than being run in a forked subprocess, but will be
>> explicitly run by sh in all other runlevels."""
> 
> I went to write the patch for this, but I paused when I saw that the other
> part of this sentence (explicitly running such scripts with sh at other
> run levels) is implemented.  The current /etc/init.d/rc runs the script
> directly if it doesn't end in .sh but runs it with sh if it does.
> 

As alternative, I propose not to use the suffix .sh:
- now we change /will be sourced/could be sourced/ , with a footnote that
   deprecated such feature
- we bugs package, to remove the suffix .sh
- after most of the most important packages removed the .sh suffix,
   the policy remove the exception, maybe introducing a footnote which
   shortly explain the past rules (this will simplify the writing of
   rationale in the new doc)

Rationale:
   users could be confused by the .sh suffix.

 > At least on my system, all of the scripts ending in .sh have a proper #!
 > line and are executable, so this wouldn't make any difference there, but I
 > wanted to double-check first before also removing that since it appears to
 > be implemented.

hmm. All init.d script should be executable, with proper #! header.
Sysadmin are used to manually /etc/init.d/foo >stop|start|restart|reload>
So I don't understand your commentart.

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