[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#805487: sysvinit: consider moving invoke-rc.d, update-rc.d and service to src:init-system-helpers

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello all.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:48:17PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 18.11.2015 um 17:32 schrieb Andreas Henriksson:
> > One idea that has been tossed around is to put them in
> > src:init-system-helpers which is already a source for
> > init-system-agnostic utilities.
[...]
> I briefly discussed that during debconf 15 where hmh, one of the
> (former) sysvinit maintainers, was present and IIRC he wasn't averse to
> the idea.

Thanks for the update on this. It looks to me like hmh is the original
author of the *-rc.d bits atleast so his blessing would be welcome.
It's also documented in the tools that each init system should ship
their own versions, but it also seems this then pretty much becomes
a "copylib" which is generally discuraged in debian so I think that
would probably be wise to reconsider. Specially since the sysvinit
versions are the ones supporting sysvinit, upstart and systemd.

I've prepared initial branches now at:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/sysvinit.git/log/?h=wip/init-tools
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/init-system-helpers.git/log/?h=wip/init-tools

My chroot did not explode when upgrading to these versions, but haven't
had time to carefully examine things yet.

Comments/suggestions welcome!

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

PS. the wip/ prefix means I intend to rebase as needed.