[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545325: enable/disable support in /usr/sbin/service

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:05AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> So the mv command above *is* the current method.  And we're in desperate
> need of a better one.

Right, this is the technical problem to solve: find one (handy) method
to enable/disable services and "bless" it as the recommended one.

There seems to be a bug report against sysvinit-utils (that package
which ships /usr/sbin/service) about this already: #545325. I'm cc-ing
the bug log with this mail. For the bug log reference, this discussion
started on -devel at
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00035.html>.

Assuming a kind soul devises a patch for #545325, which shouldn't be
*that* hard, would that be enough to fix the general problem or would we
need something else in addition? (beside documentation, of course)

In particular, considering the possibility of other init systems coming
(see #591791), would /usr/sbin/service enable/disable still be a proper,
init-system-independent, abstraction?

Cheers.