[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#435287: sysvinit: Please use new -8 option from util-linux

[Dmitrii Kashin]

> Note, this patch will only affect new installations.  Do we want to
> modify existing installations?  If we do, which ones?  As the inittab
> file by good reasons is not a conffile, such modification to existing
> installations would have to be done carefully by the postinst script.

As far as I know, if the file is not a member of conffiles it will be
replaced with a new one. It's not explicitly written in the main-guide
[1], but I think it implies. Has I mistaken? 

If I hasn't then the file will be replaced on existing installations and
we don't need the postinst script.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#conffiles