Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Job Bautista (2021-12-01 04:11:38)
> Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > On 30/11/2021 15:50, Job Bautista wrote:
> >> Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts
> >> Version: 0.10
> >> Severity: normal
> >> X-Debbugs-Cc: jobbautista9 at protonmail.com
> >
> >> Please remove iwd's init script, as it's added now in iwd 1.20-2.
> >
> > This will need some co-ordination, I think; orphan-sysvinit-scripts 
> > uses ucf to manage /etc/init.d/iwd (as a link to 
> > /usr/share/orphan-sysvinit-scripts/iwd).
> >
> > Are you planning on using ucf to manage this file?
> >
> > [this is relevant because ucfr --purge will fail if iwd has taken 
> > over, and it would probably be better for iwd to take over the 
> > registration with ucf itself. If you're not using ucf I think we can 
> > simply ucfr --purge and ucf --purge]
> 
> Hello, I don't think iwd uses ucf to manage the init script. 
> /etc/init.d/iwd is not a soft link but a real file. I'm not 100% sure 
> about this though as I'm not the package maintainer of iwd, so I'm 
> CC'ing him to this bug right now.

Not sure what the real question is here, and whether I am asked or just 
kindly informed via cc.

In case that is helful, the official Debian package "iwd" does not use 
ucf and as far as I am aware never did.  (these facts should be easy to 
check by examining the declared dependencies (or the full sources in 
case declared information might be wrong).


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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