[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#761880: Bug#761880: sysv-rc: support init scripts in /lib/init.d (or similar)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

tag 761880 wontfix
severity 761880 wishlist
thanks

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Please support init scripts in /lib/init.d (or a similar
> location). Init scripts are not configuration and as such should not
> be installed into /etc (though I doubt we can drop support for that).

No.

We would have to support a "shadow" system, where anything in /etc/init.d
would override the same named script in /lib/init.d, for no gain over what
we currently have.

And we are not breaking a 30-year old ABI _and_ adding undue complexity to
sysv-rc without very strong reasons.

Also, system initscripts *are* system configuration items, and are seldom
modified by the local sysadmin.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh