Bug#149709: [BUG] section 10.3.3 does not provide enough guidance for package maintainers to use update-rc.d correctly
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.1
Severity: normal
A couple of points regarding policy 10.3.3 ("Managing the links"):
1) The policy does not mention that if your package changes its
runlevels or priority, that "update-rc.d package remove" MUST be called,
or update-rc.d will leave the existing links in place. Given that many
other tools named "update-*" in Debian don't work this way, it might be
advisable for the examples in Policy to mention this.
2) The examples advise people to redirect the output of update-rc.d to
/dev/null. Adam Heath and I feel this is a bad idea, and even if this
change is not made, some people (like the author of lintian; see Bug
#149700) think that this is normative. To me the example looks
informative, not normative, as it would be inappropriate to put the
example text into an ELF maintainer "script" or a perl script.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zuul.progeny.com 2.4.18-386 #2 Sun Apr 14 10:38:08 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
-- no debconf information
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