orphan-sysvinit-scripts: should not contain tomcat9

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

>I’m maintaining tomcat9 out of Debian these days (it got removed),
>and a user complained about orphan-sysvinit-scripts offering a
>different initscript for it.

Unfortunately, even the latest o-s-s ships a conflicting tomcat9
init script that won’t properly work with my, rather well-used,
packages.

>In Debian proper, tomcat9 has been removed post-bullseye, and even
>in bullseye, it had a hard Depends: systemd and worked only with
>its user management dæmon and whatnot, so arguably it should never
>have been present, but (almost certainly) bookworm and trixie/sid
>should not have tomcat9 in o-s-s. Please drop it with the next up‐
>load to sid at least (which will be backported, so only the users
>of the not-updated bookworm package will still get it).

This.

>If there is a way for my package to flag to o-s-s (even in its old
>bullseye version at that) so that the latter won’t bother the init
>script from my package, please tell me.

And this, please.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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