Bug#1111737: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: please include scripts for kexec-tools, which were dropped in trixie

[Andrew Bower]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 08:14:55PM +0200, g1pi at libero.it wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote:
[...]
> Therefore, /etc/init.d/kexec is now superfluous and can be dropped:
> sysvinit users don't matter.
> 
> > Perhaps kexec maintainer can be convinced to restore the sysvinit
> > script?
> 
> Perhaps, but similar requests for e.g. rsyslog and nftables have been
> summarily discarded, so I'm a bit pessimistic.  Anyway, it might be too
> late for trixie.

It *is* too late for trixie but often package maintainers simply don't
realise there remains a constituency of users for the initscript and
will accept them back into the package, so I think it's worth a try!

One thing I like to do is to trim unnecessary complexity that is no
longer relevant, doing convoluted things with legacy environment
variables which is contrary to initscript best practice. A slimmer
script may be more palatable to an uncertain maintainer.

Often one can go further and write a fresh initscript using
init-d-script(5) with only a few lines - that might help change package
maintainers' preconceptions about initscripts!

Andrew