On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:34:59 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> wrote: > On 17 August 2016 at 03:45, Ferenc Wágner <wf...@niif.hu> wrote: > > Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > > > >> Am 16.08.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Ferenc Wágner: > >> > >>> Recently both my daemon packages started to exhibit this piuparts error: > >>> > >>> ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > >>> /etc/rc2.d/ not owned > >>> /etc/rc3.d/ not owned > >>> /etc/rc4.d/ not owned > >>> /etc/rc5.d/ not owned > >>> > >>> I think this is the result of sysv-rc losing its Essential flag, which > >>> means > >>> it isn't present in minimal chroots (like those used by piuparts) anymore. > >>> On the other hand, init-system-helpers imported update-rc.d in version > >>> 1.25, > >>> and I think /etc/rc?.d is created by update-rc.d (but never removed). All > >>> this results in piuparts failures in recently tested daemon packages. > >>> > >>> If the above analysis is correct, please fix this. > >> > >> Fix what exactly? > > > > The piuparts errors. By taking ownership of the /etc/rc?.d symlink > > directories. (Removing them if they become empty is another option, but > > does not sound a very good idea.) Previously they were owned by > > sysv-rc, which also provided update-rc.d, which used these directories. > > When update-rc.d moved into init-system-helpers, /etc/rc?.d should've > > followed along, but was forgotten, I guess. > > Indeed. init-system-helpers even already did this for > /etc/systemd/system. I have added the rc?.d directories to the list. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/init-system-helpers.git/commit/?id=62e093e7949a25479cbc78d01903f76f49629059
This will cause the directories to continue to exist even when empty. Ideally, these directories could become empty and disappear eventually, on a system not running sysvinit. What would it take for that to happen?