[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: unmaintained package should not be Essential

[Felipe Sateler]

On 18 January 2017 at 09:48, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: sysvinit-utils
> Version: 2.88dsf-59.8
> X-Debbugs-Cc: init-system-helpers at packages.debian.org, debianutils at packages.debian.org
>
> sysvinit appears to be unmaintained, but it builds an Essential package
> (sysvinit-utils) that must be installed on all Debian systems. This
> seems like a bad situation.
>
> Contents of sysvinit-utils, ignoring documentation:
>
> /lib/init/init-d-script
> /lib/init/vars.sh

These could be depended upon by users (where users == init scripts
without corresponding systemd service file).

> /sbin/fstab-decode

I see only drbl and open-iscsi use this[1], so they could start
depending on sysvinit-utils too.

[1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=fstab-decode&perpkg=1

> /bin/pidof == /sbin/killall5 (same program)

procps also has a pidof implementation, so we could switch to that.
Andreas Henriksson + Craig Small have done some analysis at #810018


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler