Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [...] It's just that /etc/init.d/functions is > obsolete, and should be replaced with an empty file so that people > stop thinking it's useful :-). > > It shouldn't be removed until all the packages that source it have > been updated not to do so, or they'll all fall over.
Not only that. Done right, attempts to downgrade one of those packages to a version which requires /etc/init.d/functions should be refused after the sysvinit package is upgraded to a version which does not suppoly /etc/init.d/functions. As I understand it, the supported mechanism for doing this is for the sysvinit package to declare version-based conflicts with the latest version of each individual package and version which requires /etc/init.d/functions. This is unlikely to happen, I'd guess. That means that packages will be able to be downgraded to earlier versions which will fall over because of /etc/init/functions being missing.
