Your message dated Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:40:47 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#573016: /etc/init.d/rc - it is not a conffile, but it should be has caused the Debian Bug report #573016, regarding file-rc: /etc/init.d/rc - it is not a conffile, but it should be to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: file-rc Version: 0.8.10 Severity: normal Hi, >From my point of view, the file "/etc/init.d/rc" should be a conffile, but it is not. Please fix this for a more friendly user (sysadmin) experience. This is probably a policy issue also, here is a quote from section 10.7.3, Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior: * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and * configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed, and only deleted when the package is purged. The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration file a `conffile'. I discovered this issue after the upgrade to file-rc 0.8.10, when my locally modified version of "/etc/init.d/rc" had been overwritten - and my local changes had not been preserved. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/etch APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---control: tag -1 wontfix [2010-03-08 11:23] Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> > [Alexander Wirt]: > > I don't have any idea how to solve this, the bugreport is right that > > everything in /etc/ should be a conffile - but on the other side > > /etc/init.d/rc is a little bit special. > > Well, I do not buy the argument that everything in /etc/ should be a > conffile, and /etc/init.d/rc should defnitely not be a conffile. See > #132542 for a early BTS report about the same issue. > > What that is said, my long term plan is to move it to /lib/init/rc, > but I have never seen it as important enough to give it priority. > (And I still do not see it as important enought to give it priority > over all the other things to fix with the boot system and the rest of > the tasks I have on my priority list. :) Unfortunately, file-rc is not in Debian anymore, and no loger argument. Still, I agree, that /etc/init.d/rc is not suitable to be conffile. Dear submitter, if you still need more flexibility, that /etc/default/rcS provides, feel free to file new bug. Probably we would be able to invent new configration variable?
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