[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#761878: Bug#761878: sysv-rc: policy-rc.d should live under /etc

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

severity 761878 wishlist
tag 761878 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> policy-rc.d is supposed to be configured (and thus edited) by the
> local admin. It should thus not live in /usr/sbin.

It is supposed to be supplied under the Debian alternatives subsystem or
something equivalent, which will install a symlink there.  In fact, it will
install a symlink to /etc/alternatives/policy-rc.d, which will be another
symlink there to the active "alternative".

The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d symlink would be created and managed by the
packages providing policy-rc.d, through /usr/sbin/update-alternatives.  The
local admin can do the same if he wants.  Or he can just add a real file in
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and update-alternatives should leave it alone.

Nobody ever found a reason to package a general-use policy-rc.d, although
the feature is directly used by some tools that create private chroots, such
as pbuilder.

> Please support using a policy-rc.d located under /etc (and leave
> /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as a legacy location).

AFAIK, there is no strong technical reason to change the policy-rc.d ABI at
this time, so I will downgrade this to wishlist and tag it wontfix.

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