Right, damn;). 

Guillem, do you generally think that using triggers (by manually adding 
activate to sysvinit*) is a good way how to solve this problem? 

Ondřej 

On December 9, 2014 3:27:36 PM GMT+01:00, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> 
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 14:56:56 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014, at 12:24, Gerrit Pape wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:08:49PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> > > On 24/11/14 21:41, Gerrit Pape wrote:
>> > > > Better than (2) would be to make the existence of /etc/inittab
>still
>> > > > essential for jessie, by moving the corresponding code from
>> > > > sysvinit-core into the essential init package.  What do you
>think?
>> > > 
>> > > If you go this route, I think initscripts might be a better home
>for
>> > 
>> > As I wrote above, I actually don't have the time to go any road at
>all.
>> > 
>> > The packages worked just fine until I learnt that support for the
>> > inittab interface is dropped in jessie.  I fixed the packages.  Now
>I
>> > learnt that the existence of /etc/inittab is no longer essential,
>next
>> > thing breaking my packages - when switching jessie to sysvinit.
>> 
>> I haven't noticed if this was mentioned before, but dpkg-trigger on
>> /etc/inittab doesn't work?
>> 
>> e.g.
>> 
>> interest /etc/inittab
>
>It should not, because the file is not managed by dpkg, and no one
>AFAIK is explicitly activating that file trigger. (And remember,
>always consider if using the -noawait trigger variants is more
>appropriate, as that makes the upgrade path way easier, and avoids
>possible trigger cycles.)
>
>Thanks,
>Guillem

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
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