orphan-sysvinit-scripts: should not contain tomcat9

[Matthew Vernon]

Hi,

On 03/03/2025 11:19, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Matthew Vernon dixit:
> 
>> I don't mean to be unsympathetic, but AFAICT this issue was never
>> reported to the BTS. I try and keep up with this mailing list, but I
>> don't remember everything everyone says on it.
> 
> Ah, hmm, but the mailing list is the listed contact to the
> development.

Sure, but if you email matthew at d.o about pcre2 bugs (for example), 
there's a much greater chance of them getting lost or forgotten about, 
which is why we have a BTS :)

>> I think this is difficult - o-s-s has to prioritise packages in Debian, and
>> AIUI the tomcat9 package being discussed is from an external source.
> 
> That’s precisely what I said, the tomcat9 package was gone from
> Debian for over a release when someone newly introduced the init
> script to o-s-s, which I got a complaint about from a user.

That someone was me, in the initial tranche of o-s-s scripts - I took 
the list of packages to target from Mark's email to this list on 
2021-01-02 (which in turn was based on what packages Devuan had had to 
fork). I was trying to be helpful...

>> Would just removing the tomcat9 script from the next o-s-s upload do
>> what you require, or is something more complex needed?
> 
> That would be the first step, the one I asked for over a year ago.
> 
> The other thing would be something I can do in my package or to
> my init script to avoid o-s-s overwriting it.

With iwd, it was a bit more complicated (hence my question), and we 
ended up with extra code in debian/postrm[0]; see #1000879 for details. 
I don't know if this is necessary in this case or not...

Regards,

Matthew

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https://salsa.debian.org/matthew/orphan-sysvinit-scripts/-/blob/master/debian/postrm?ref_type=heads#L26