Bug#1086710: reportbug: if-up.d/mountnfs is always a NO-OP and should be fixed or removed

[Mark Hindley]

Athanasius,

Thanks for this.

On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 02:20:27PM +0000, Athanasius wrote:
>   Ergo, there is no way that this if-up.d script, in its current form,
> can ever actually do anything useful when systemd is in use,

Correct. In fact recent versions of systemd conflict with initscripts so the
package is not even installed on systemd systems anymore.

> which it always is on modern Debian systems.

Err, no! Alternative (non-systemd) inits are still available, viable and used in
all current Debian suites. Consider runit-init, sysvinit and openrc.

AFAIK, this file is still used and useful on such systems.

Or have I misunderstood you?

Mark