On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:57:36AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I gave this some more thought, and have a proposal for a way forward > to reduce surprises and confusion. > > We can reintroduce the rc.boot feature for a few more years, announce > a deadline when it go away on debian-announce@, get the FAQ updated to > state this, and update the init.d/rc code and the rc.boot(5) manual > page to mention when this feature is going away. The deadline could > be 2-5 years in the future.
i agree it should be restored. but i don't see any reason why it ever needs to be removed. those who don't use it can just ignore it. it's not like a couple of lines of shell code in /etc/init.d/rc is going to cause anyone any problems or contribute significantly to bloat. i notice that /etc/rc.local is still supported by the initscripts package, and that's far less useful than /etc/rc.boot because it's just a single script, not a directory. > An alternative is to decide to keep this feature, reintroduce it and > update the code and manual page to mention that this is only for local > administrators and should not be used by packages. makes more sense to me. that's pretty much what it has been for the last 10+ years anyway. > I must admit I am surprised to discover that someone still depend on > /etc/rc.boot, 10 years after it was declared obsolete. given that there's no reasonable substitute, it's hardly surprising. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org