I think that I you don't know if it would work with file-rc, you shoudn't depend on sysv-rc.
apt-cache rdepends sysv-rc file-rc file-rc Reverse Depends: festival sysvinit sysv-rc sysv-rc rcconf festival bum sysv-rc Reverse Depends: upstart-compat-sysv hplip hplip sysv-rc-bootsplash insserv |festival |sysvinit sysv-rc-conf runit-run rcconf kde-guidance insserv initscripts file-rc |festival bum bpalogin The only package with a rdepend on sysv-rc and not file-rc is bpalogin, and it also has a bug report on it (#431478). I think that you should not depend on sysv-rc neither on file-rc. Do you agree to make the change?
