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Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> I think I heard of someone using them *once*.  It is very rare, AFAIK.

> However, if there is one thing I learned the hard way, is that people
> who use the advanced features don't make themselves or that fact known
> unless you ask.  They often don't show up even when you break things for
> them :-(

Back when we were arguing over the right way to disable an init script so
that the state was preserved across package upgrades, I remember several
people saying policy.d was the right way to disable a specific service.
Presumably a few people were using it based on that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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