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Mark Hindley
mark at hindley.org.uk
Tue Jun 20 10:41:02 BST 2023
Hello all,
There have been a few recent discussions on #debian-init regarding the removal
of src:mdadm's initscripts[1] and orphan-sysvinit-scripts.
I am concerned that the current rate of drop of initscripts may become
unsustainable[2]. Daniel Baumann is also proposing an orphan-cron-jobs
package[3][4].
My personal view is that we should resist an orphan-cron-jobs package and keep
cron jobs in their parent package. But others may disagree?
I would like to improve the way initscripts are represented in the Policy. Just
waiting for users to report breakage after they have been dropped seems
inadequate. I am aware that this has the potential to reopen a whole mess of old
wounds and I want to keep it as uncontroversial(!) as possible.
An initial draft for discussion is attached. All comments are very welcome.
Thanks and best wishes
Mark
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1037496
[2] There are currently about 1150 packages in unstable main which ship a file
in /etc/init.d
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1037496#55
[4] There are currently about 220 packages in unstable which ship a file in /etc/cron*
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Mark Hindley
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