Bug#705030: Insufficient docs about changes due to insserv/startpar

[Mark Hindley]

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Martin,

I realise this has been unanswered for a very long time and much has changed in
the interim. Apologies.

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:46:27AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Using update-rc.d to install a symlink to a script in init.d does
> work. However, this is not really explained in /etc/rcS.d/README,
> nor in /etc/init.d/README, nor in /usr/share/doc/sysv, nor in the
> manpages of startpar or insserv.
> 
> Instead, these documents carry a lot of historical information that
> isn't really applicable or interesting anymore to anyone but
> researchers looking into the evolution of SysV on Debian.

Most of those READMEs no longer exist. Are insserv(8) and update-rc.d(8)
sufficiently clear now?

Mark