[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#743273: sysv-rc: invoke-rc.d too silent when used under systemd

[Ralf Jung]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-51
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

when invoke-rc.d is called under systemd, it doesn't even tell the user
that a service has been started/stopped/restarted.
This is surprising, especially considering that invoke-rc.d is used by
maintainer scripts: When I re-installed a package I was working on,
I wondered why the service had not been restarted the way it used to be.
Using "systemctl status", I noticed that it actually *had* been restarted,
but it didn't tell me.

To reproduce, run

  invoke-rc.d postfix reload

or anything similar. On a sysvinit system, this prints

  [ ok ] Reloading Postfix configuration...done.

while on a systemd system, it prints nothing.

Kind regards
Ralf  


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.52
ii  insserv                1.14.0-5
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-51

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum           <none>
pn  sysv-rc-conf  <none>

-- debconf information:
  sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
  sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true