[gitlab at salsa.debian.org: Re: debhelper | dh_installinit: Remove the executable bits on package removal / dh_installsystemd: No longer mask system units on package removal (!90)]

[Lorenzo]

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 12:21:28 +0100
Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just received this from salsa as I was mentioned.
> 
> It appears Michael is suggesting updating dh_installinit to remove
> the x bit from an initscript when a package is removed.

I see this change is an improvement and I think it will help support
init-diversity although the benefit goes mostly to users of other init
systems (systemd, runit, openrc). 
Besides the "shadowing" reason mentioned in the MR, it makes also
possible to do accurate heuristics based on sysvinit scritps to
detect which service is installed and which one is not.

Lorenzo

> 
> Comments welcome here or on the MR (I suppose).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:03:20 +0000
> From: "Michael Biebl (@biebl)" <gitlab at salsa.debian.org>
> To: mark at hindley.org.uk
> Subject: Re: debhelper | dh_installinit: Remove the executable bits
> on package removal /  dh_installsystemd: No longer mask system units
> on package removal (!90)
> 
>    Michael Biebl commented:
> 
>      Benefits for sysvinit users:
>      * /etc/init.d/<TAB> will not list such services for uninstalled
>        packages
>      * one can quickly see via ls -l /etc/init.d which services are
>        leftovers from uninstalled packages
>      * insserv/startpar could be updated to handle such services more
>        intelligently and avoid starting scripts during boot that are
>        basically NOPs (test -x $DAEMON || exit 0) wasting unnecessary
> CPU cycles and making sure dependencies are actually fulfilled.
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