Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kel Modderman <k...@otaku42.de> writes:
>
>> It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the
>> sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no
>> longer relevant and should be removed:
>>
>> """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in
>> runlevel S rather than being run in a forked subprocess, but will be
>> explicitly run by sh in all other runlevels."""
>>
>> The reasons for which it should be removed are:
>>
>> * /etc/init.d/rc has not supported this for an extremely long time, probably
>> never, because the system would be unbootable due to .sh scripts calling
>> 'exit' [0, 1].
>
> Given this, I definitely agree. There's no point in having a statement
> like this in Policy when our core packages don't implement it and no one
> has apparently cared.
>
> Unless someone steps up to say that we should do the work to reimplement
> support for this interface (including fixing all the broken *.sh scripts
> we have now), I think it's obvious we should simply remove it. There's no
> need to specify things no one uses and clearly can do without.
I agree.
BTW LSB doesn't have such special case, so such
proposal will converge to LSB, which is also positive.
ciao
cate
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