Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.1.1.1
Well, it seems that my update-rc.d clarifications were confusing. So
here is an attempt to clean up the wording in section 3.3.1 of
policy. There is no intended change of meaning, but it clarifies that
we are only talking about maintainer scripts and not human
administrators.
There are at least two different, yet functionally equivalent, ways of
handling these scripts. For the sake of simplicity, this document
describes only the symbolic link method. However, it may not be
- assumed that this method is being used, and any manipulation of the
- various runlevel behaviours must be performed using `update-rc.d' as
- described below and not by manually installing symlinks. For
information on the implementation details of the other method,
implemented in the `file-rc' package, please refer to the
documentation of that package.
There are at least two different, yet functionally equivalent, ways of
handling these scripts. For the sake of simplicity, this document
describes only the symbolic link method. However, it may not be
+ assumed by maintainer scripts that this method is being used, and any
+ automated manipulation of the various runlevel behaviours by maintainer
+ scripts must be performed using `update-rc.d' as described
+ below and not by manually installing or removing symlinks. For
information on the implementation details of the other method,
implemented in the `file-rc' package, please refer to the
documentation of that package.
Julian
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