On 18 January 2017 at 09:48, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: sysvinit-utils > Version: 2.88dsf-59.8 > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], > [email protected] > > sysvinit appears to be unmaintained, but it builds an Essential package > (sysvinit-utils) that must be installed on all Debian systems. This > seems like a bad situation. > > Contents of sysvinit-utils, ignoring documentation: > > /lib/init/init-d-script > /lib/init/vars.sh
These could be depended upon by users (where users == init scripts without corresponding systemd service file). > /sbin/fstab-decode I see only drbl and open-iscsi use this[1], so they could start depending on sysvinit-utils too. [1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=fstab-decode&perpkg=1 > /bin/pidof == /sbin/killall5 (same program) procps also has a pidof implementation, so we could switch to that. Andreas Henriksson + Craig Small have done some analysis at #810018 -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel

