[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#589561: init.d/Scripts are not considered conffiles

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ralph Ulrich]
> Although #grep '^/etc/init.d/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles shows
> all packages do consider init.d/scripts as conffiles.  This might be
> non-intuitive for Debian users! In fact it will provide, and has,
> endless new bug reportings for packages not totally purged, if there
> was installed an alternative conflicting resource.
> 
> As of the existence of /etc/insserv/overrides there already is the
> place to modify lsb-headers. Why not accepting the whole script from
> there if user modification was needed ?  And remove all
> /etc/init.d/Scipts when deinstalling !

Can you provide more explanation?  I failed completely to understand
what you mean.

Note that a recent version of sysv-rc will only refuse to migrate to
dependency based boot sequencing when obsolete init.d scripts are
present if a problem is detected in the boot sequence.  Not sure if
that is relevant for your report, but thought it best to mention it.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen