[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#887266: initscripts should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 02:35:01AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Small containers, systems and chroots that need an init really want to use
> sysvinit (thus initscripts) [...]

No init or 'dumb-init' are other choices people are advocating for that
use-case. I don't think using sysvinit in containers should be
considered the normal usecase for it, so I'd argue that adding the
dependency for now until someone volunteers to further refactor things
(as helmut already suggested, but see also below)....

[...]
> Yes, these scripts to use logsave.  If I read codesearch's output right,
> there are only two packages that use it:
> * initramfs-tools
> * initscripts
[...]
> self-contained .c file that can be tossed around and shipped in any arch:any
> package.
[...]

The discussion about moving logsave around is in #619785 .

Please consider also #501481 first though as that would probably
make the entire point moot from sysvinit side!

(See also #524007 related to logsave usage in sysvinit/initscripts.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson