Bug#1100035: kmod: Please add the init script

[Mark Hindley]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 05:15:12PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 10, Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Would you please revert this change? To remove the initscript at this stage in
> No, I will not dedicate any more resources to sysvinit support.

It isn't just sysvinit, the LSB init script is also used by openrc and runit.

> > If /etc/init.d/kmod was to be transferred to another package, the best fit might
> > be bin:initscripts. However, src:sysvinit is an essential toolchain package and
> > enters freeze later this week.
> Be quick then, you still have time!

But we require your cooperation to coordinate the transition.

At the moment sysadmin changes to /etc/init.d/kmod will be lost because
kmod.maintscript has rm_conffile /etc/init.d/kmod 34-1~

That would need to be removed so that initscripts can take over the existing
/etc/init.d/kmod.

For reference a similar transition was undertaken to move /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
from util-linux-extra to initscripts a few years ago.

Mark