[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Provide /lib/init/init-d-script for short and simple init.d scripts?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi.

Should we create and include something like /lib/init/init-d-script as
described in
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_init_d_boot_script_example_for_rsyslog.html > to allow
the packages with simple init.d scripts to get away with creating
init.d scripts looking like this:

  #!/lib/init/init-d-script
  ### BEGIN INIT INFO
  # Provides:          rsyslog
  # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $time
  # Required-Stop:     umountnfs $time
  # X-Stop-After:      sendsigs
  # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
  # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
  # Short-Description: enhanced syslogd
  # Description:       Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.
  #                    It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be 
  #                    used as a drop-in replacement.
  ### END INIT INFO
  DESC="enhanced syslogd"
  DAEMON=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd

It would allow the majority of Debian packages with init.d scripts to
cut down their init.d script code length a lot, and allow us to
centrally control the behaviour of all these scripts.

Not quite sure in what package we should put it, as the
/lib/init/init-d-script should be available for users of sysv-rc,
file-rc, systemd and upstart.  Any suggestions?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen