[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#546401: sysvinit/sysv-rc drops support for /etc/rc.boot

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Sep 13 13:04:38 UTC 2009


[Craig Sanders]
>> The feature has been obsolete for 10 years, the manual page have
> 
> no, the feature has been deprecated for use in PACKAGES for 10 years.

Where do you have this idea from?  The manual page did not mention
anything about the features obsoleteness only affecting packages.  The
information I found indicated that the feature itself was obsolete,
and this is the reason I dropped it.

I do not have any strong opinions either way, but believe that a
feature that is flagged obsolete should eventually be removed.
Flagging a feature as obsolete for 10 years seemed enough warning time
to me, and that is the background for me removing the code.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen





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