Mark Hindley <lee...@debian.org> writes: > Debian Policy no longer requires that packages which provide a systemd > .service file also provide an initscript. This permits maintainers who > so wish to remove initscripts from their packages. However, > initscripts remain used and useful[1], and uncoordinated removal can > have significant effects on users' systems[2]. > > With the encouragement of the Technical Committee[3] and despite some > unavoidable deficiencies resulting consequent on keeping initscripts without > their intended package[4], orphan-sysvinit-scripts has collected and > maintained > some dropped initscripts. However, the process surrounding this has not been > defined in Policy. Indeed, #975075[5] contains a number of suggestions that > have > not yet been followed through.
This seems like something that the trixie release notes should mention - although quite what it should say is perhaps not yet clear. Can you file a bug against release notes suggestiong what users should do. Presumably people using non-systemd should install orphan-susvinit-scripts while people using the default systemd dont need to do anything?
