[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653333: Bug#653333: initscripts: /etc/mtab is replaced unnecessarily if it points to /proc/self/mounts

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Kusanagi Kouichi]
> /proc/mounts is symlink to /proc/self/mounts. So there is no need to
> replace /etc/mtab if it is symlink to /proc/self/mounts.

There is also, as far as I know, no reason to _not_ change it, given
that both give the same result.  There is a reason to change it, and
that is to make Debian installations more consistent to avoid
surprises.

Why should we _not_ change the /etc/mtab symlink from
/proc/self/mounts to /proc/mounts?
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Petter Reinholdtsen