On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 01:48, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote:
> debuerreotype diverts /sbin/initctl. This file is part of upstart, which
> has been deleted from Debian since at least bullseye. If it still were
> part of Debian, we'd have to move the file and hence this diversion
> would become ineffective. Rather than fix it, I propose deleting the
> dead code.

It is precisely those older versions that the code still exists for --
I use debuerreotype for creating reproducible rootfs builds all the
way back to slink. 😄

You can see in [1] that it only runs that diversion iff "upstart"
exists in the repos we're pointed at.

[1]: 
https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/blob/60b625d1ce31bd81525bb67fc3a33f9686bc3433/scripts/debuerreotype-minimizing-config#L40

♥,
- Tianon
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