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Hello,
In bug #950851 the reporter says that runit is not policy compliant
because during boot it does not check the policy-rc.d hack before
starting sysv services.
However I read policy 9.3.3 as referring to maintainer scripts (
install, upgrade, remove) but I can't find anything about
boot or shutdown. In my mind the severity of that bug ranges from
wishlist ("please implement this new feature") to important (policy-rc.d
is part of an interface that is defined in policy and has a should for
maintainer scripts)
I can think of many ways to fix #950851 but I'm unsure if solutions I'm
thinking about are policy compliant or not, for example:
Is an init required to implement a mechanism like policy-rc.d or it's
optional?
It has to be policy-rc.d or it can be a different (native) one? Maybe
policy.rc-d is mandatory only for
sysv scripts but not for runit services?
It has to be effective only for maintainer script, or it has to cover
every way to start a service?
It has to be effective also during system boot?
Regards,
Lorenzo
