[sarnold@willamette.edu: Re: Bug#55048: [PROPOSAL] clarify update-rc.d stuff]
Greetings list. About a week ago, Julian posted a diff to policy, bu 55048,
and I sent an email of encouragement directly to Julian. Since that time, I
don't recall any other comments towards his diff, so I thought I would try
to help stir things up.
So, here is the email I have sent to Julian personally, in the hopes someone
will either come forward and second his changes; I cannot, since my Debian
Developer Hat is still on backorder.
Perhaps, as a reason why I think it should be changed -- when I moved to
Debian (from suse, I got there from a short-lived redhat stint, and I got
there from a long slackware affair) I read practically everything on the web
page, including policy -- and I remember reading, and re-reading this
paragraph time and time again, trying to figure out if that applied to me as
an admin or not. I decided it *did* apply to me.
If I could, I would second this, so I am counting on the regular readers to
help out new-comers to Debian. :)
Thanks
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:32:36 -0800
From: Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>
To: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug#55048: [PROPOSAL] clarify update-rc.d stuff
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In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 20000114011204.A21425@polya>; from Julian Gilbey on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:12:04AM +0000
I like the change -- I remember wondering if *I* as an admin should use
update-rc.d or if things would break if I didn't -- other distros *do* break
if you modify things yourself... :)
NIce rewording :)
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:12:04AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.1.1.1
>
> Well, it seems that my update-rc.d clarifications were confusing. So
> here is an attempt to clean up the wording in section 3.3.1 of
> policy. There is no intended change of meaning, but it clarifies that
> we are only talking about maintainer scripts and not human
> administrators.
>
> There are at least two different, yet functionally equivalent, ways of
> handling these scripts. For the sake of simplicity, this document
> describes only the symbolic link method. However, it may not be
> - assumed that this method is being used, and any manipulation of the
> - various runlevel behaviours must be performed using `update-rc.d' as
> - described below and not by manually installing symlinks. For
> information on the implementation details of the other method,
> implemented in the `file-rc' package, please refer to the
> documentation of that package.
>
> There are at least two different, yet functionally equivalent, ways of
> handling these scripts. For the sake of simplicity, this document
> describes only the symbolic link method. However, it may not be
> + assumed by maintainer scripts that this method is being used, and any
> + automated manipulation of the various runlevel behaviours by maintainer
> + scripts must be performed using `update-rc.d' as described
> + below and not by manually installing or removing symlinks. For
> information on the implementation details of the other method,
> implemented in the `file-rc' package, please refer to the
> documentation of that package.
>
> Julian
>
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