[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

[Benjamin Moody]

This bug was never fixed, as far as I can tell.  In version
2.88dsf-25, the file '/etc/default/rcS' (which is part of initscripts)
was made into a conffile.  However, '/etc/init.d/rcS' (which is part
of sysv-rc) never was.

The points raised in the original bug report remain valid today.
/etc/init.d/rcS is useful as a way to customize the early boot
sequence - for example, I have been using it to set the global CPU
affinity.  (Which I could have done by editing /etc/default/rcS
instead, but that's less obvious and arguably less flexible.)

Since /etc/init.d/rcS is human-readable and located in /etc, it is
reasonable for an administrator to expect that they can edit it and
have their changes preserved when upgrading the package.  Moreover,
the script is trivial - there's no reason for the file even to exist
if administrators aren't meant to be able to customize it.