Control: tags -1 upstream
Andrew,
Thanks for this.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 11:48:24PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote:
> When booting with sysvinit, the following message is invariably displayed:
>
> INIT: No inittab.d directory found
>
> This is a little excessive for a default installation as the visual footprint
> from init should be minimal. It does not seem to be valid as an error or a
> warning.
I agree. I think this could/should be silently ignored (upstream).
> This can be worked around by adding a directory in debian.sysvinit-core.dirs.
Really that adds unnecessary cruft.
> However, this then leads us to a documentation issue: you have to read the
> source code to realise that only files ending ".tab" will be read. Therefore I
> suggest the patch below [4] would be a better resolution in the debian
> package,
> including a README to explain this point.
>
> But we are not out of the woods. The change [1] that introduced this feature
> did not document it. So I suggest that the upstream documents the directory
> and
> its constraints in the man pages.
Certainly that would be worth documenting, again upstream.
> Then if you do use the feature, you get excessively verbose output due to [2]:
>
> printf("Got line: %s\n", buf);
>
> I think upstream should remove that.
That looks like debug leftovers to me.
Jesse,
Do are you able to address these upstream?
Thanks
Mark
