Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2018-12-20 09:34] KatolaZ <katolaz at freaknet.org>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:40:48PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > 
> > control: tags -1 +moreinfo
> > 
> > [2015-12-01 23:07] Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
> > > In my view, /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS should not be
> > > conffiles.  They should be moved to /lib/init/ instead.
> > 
> > Dear co-maintainers, what about actually moving /etc/init.d/{rc,rcS}
> > into /lib/init and adding symbolic links?
> > 
> > Any objections to this approach?
> 
> Why shall we move it at all?

Because sysadmin usually assume, that edits of anything under /etc
will be preserved between upgrades. And /etc/init.d/{rc,rcS} violate
this expectation.