[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)]

[Mark Hindley]

Jesse,

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 10:37:20AM -0300, Jesse Smith wrote:
> If I'm reading this proposal correctly, what's basically being suggested
> here is that when insserv is working out dependencies it would just
> ignore any scripts without execute permissions? And, as a result,
> startpar wouldn't be asked to run those scripts because they wouldn't
> show up in the dependency tree.

Yes, or alternatively that insserv is unchanged and startpar ignores scripts
which have not executable bit. I am not certain which approach is better, but I
*think* changing insserv makes more sense to me.

No, there isn't a patch anywhere at the moment.

Thanks for looking at it.

Mark