Hello,

I suggest the following resolution of the problem:

If there's an SV entry in /etc/inittab, the user probably already had
daemontools in use. Since the run scripts require (small?)
modifications to be compatible with runit, in this case having a second
/etc/inittab entry would be appropriate to facilitate soft migration.
Since the default run directory for daemontools is /service (the FHS
version after daemontools-installer uses /var/lib/svscan), there is no
collision with what the runit package installs at this point. So, just
pick a different service name and figure out which entry belongs to
runit by checking for runsvdir vs. svscan.

Suggested service name: "SVR".

The advantage for this method is that it allows both easy migration to
'SV' once daemontools are dropped, and that it also doesn't require any
of the debconf stuff.

FWIW, people who use daemontools are supposed to know what they are
doing since integration with Debian is rather poor, imho. So, they will
figure out by themselves when and what to do with /etc/inittab, w/o
requiring massive tool chain support.


Best,
--Toni++



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