[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Where do /lib/init/init-d-script belong?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > IMHO, they goes into initscripts. That avoids an extra dependence
> > (initscripts -> sysvinit-utils).
> 
> This definitely make some sense, but most of initscripts are parts
> that I suspect upstart and systemd will want to replace, as their

...

> While sysvinit-utils contain tools useful for any boot system
> (fstab-decode, killall5, last, lastb, mesg, pidof, service, startpar
> and sulogin), and the init-d-script code is more a tool for packages
> writing init.d scripts than it is a integrated part of the boot
> framework.

Since regular packages using the helper will require either a versioned
depends or even pre-depends on the package that hosts it, we REALLY don't
want to have to move it from a package to a different package later.

IMHO, for that reason, sysvinit-utils is a much safer place for the init-d
helper.

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