Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Current policy states in section 9.3.3.2 ("Running initscripts") the
> following: "The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/*
> initscripts is strongly recommended[51], instead of calling them
> directly."
>
> Footnote 51 further says: "In the future, the use of invoke-rc.d to
> invoke initscripts shall be made mandatory. Maintainers are advised to
> switch to invoke-rc.d as soon as possible."
>
> I propose that the future has arrived.Seconded. (BTW, debootstrap should get changed sometime to use an invoke-rc.d policy instead of its current hack of replacing start-stop-daemon with a wrapper. d-i also diverts dtart-stop-daemon during the install, but only as a fallback in case a package not supporting invoke-rc.d is installed.) Here's the packages by maintainer BTW: Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> interchange Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xpilot-ng Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rbootd Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> exim-html exim-texinfo Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> exim Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bricolage thttpd Kęstutis Biliūnas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> freedict Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> avahi Scott M. Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bwbar Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adzapper Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> net-acct Khalid El Fathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linuxlogo Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libroxen-imho roxen4 tcpquota Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libnss-ldap Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xtide-data Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gcpegg John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dict-bouvier dict-gazetteer2k dict-moby-thesaurus Debian Firebird Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> firebird2 Debian Mono Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xsp Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eco5000 slbreflex Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> autofs Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> clamav-data Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> oss-preserve Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> php4-tclink Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dict-devil dict-elements dict-gcide dict-misc Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dict-jargon Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> heartbeat heartbeat-2 Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sauce Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reseed LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bind Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> battery-stats Tibor Koleszar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apcd Yoshito Komatsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> canna-shion Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diald Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ntop Cyril Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eagle-usb Jonathan McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fidogate Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nas Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pipsecd Abraham vd Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orca Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quota watchdog Millis Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iptotal Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tama Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sfs Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nessus-core Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uif Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> towitoko Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fonty Vladimir Shakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wdm Preston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sendpage Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> boa Debian OpenSSL Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> openssl openssl097 Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailgraph Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fml Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nbd Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scanlogd Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> genpower jukebox-mercury squid-prefetch Discover Workers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> discover James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adjtimex tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> netsaint-statd Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnudip -- see shy jo
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