Bug#149709: BUG] section 10.3.3 does not provide enough guidance for package maintainers to use update-rc.d correctly
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.
I agree. if update-rc.d is too chatty for use in a maintainer script it
either needs to be more silent and a verbose option added, or a new
option for silent running needs to be added.
Wichert.
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