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

[g1pi at libero.it]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 08:01:38PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> 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!
> 

submitted #1111802