severity 761878 wishlist tag 761878 wontfix thanks On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > policy-rc.d is supposed to be configured (and thus edited) by the > local admin. It should thus not live in /usr/sbin.
It is supposed to be supplied under the Debian alternatives subsystem or something equivalent, which will install a symlink there. In fact, it will install a symlink to /etc/alternatives/policy-rc.d, which will be another symlink there to the active "alternative". The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d symlink would be created and managed by the packages providing policy-rc.d, through /usr/sbin/update-alternatives. The local admin can do the same if he wants. Or he can just add a real file in /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and update-alternatives should leave it alone. Nobody ever found a reason to package a general-use policy-rc.d, although the feature is directly used by some tools that create private chroots, such as pbuilder. > Please support using a policy-rc.d located under /etc (and leave > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as a legacy location). AFAIK, there is no strong technical reason to change the policy-rc.d ABI at this time, so I will downgrade this to wishlist and tag it wontfix. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
