On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:20:34 +0200, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote: >On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 04:25:19PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am not sure whether it is doing non-systemd users a favor to keep a >> probably outdated, bitrotting and untested init script in the >> canonical place. My gut feeling is that it might be better to ship the >> old init script in /usr/share/doc/package/examples unless the package >> maintainer is reasonably sure that the init script will actually work. > >No, that is worse, because if an updated init script is shipped as an >example only, I will not even get a notification that I might want to >change my installed init script.
You have a point here. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a standardized function in /lib/lsb/init-functions that emits a warning that the package maintainer has changed the mechanism to invoke the daemon and that the init script might need additional work, so that a lazy maintainer like me might just call that function to give the local admin a heads-up. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
