Bug#1133290: Import uuidd init script from uuid-runtime?

[Andrew Bower]

Hi Chris,

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 09:05:21PM +0200, Chris Hofstädtler wrote:
> uuid-runtime ships a sysvinit script for uuidd. This is not 
> well-supported upstream anymore and has some extra build-time 
> complication in src:util-linux. I'll drop the init script from the 
> uuid-runtime package.

Thanks for the heads up!

I tend to think initscripts are better owned by distributions rather
than upstreams, for various reasons.

I propose a fresh initscript for uuid - would be grateful if you
could consider including it to replace the upstream one:

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/merge_requests/45

Is it the generation of content in the debian directory that caused the
unwanted complications? I wonder if this solution avoids that?

Thanks,

Andrew