Bug#76868: PROPOSED] invoke-rc.d interface to invoke initscripts

[Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> This has now been seconded twice; it should have its status changed to
> "accepted" and I guess that the sysvinit and file-rc packages should
> have bugs against them to include the necessary scripts.  Perhaps they

The file-rc scripts are not written yet, so I didn't change the status. I'll
be able to get them up to shape soon, cleaning up the fetchmail package has
taken quite a lot of my debian time lately...

> should both Provide: invoke-rc so that packages using it can depend on
> invoke-rc?  Or should packages have some sort of conditional in the
> /etc/init.d?  I prefer the former.

Well, packages need to (pre-)?depends only on the new sysvinit package
implementing invoke-rc.d, as file-rc will also depend on that package. The
new sysvinit package would conflicts: with the file-rc package not providing
invoke-rc.d.

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