Bug#149709: BUG] section 10.3.3 does not provide enough guidance for package maintainers to use update-rc.d correctly
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
So do I. update-rc.d is part of the init script structure for maintainer
scripts, and its defaults should be tailored for that use. If people feel
the need to >/dev/null its output, it must be fixed. Humans can use -v for
verbose mode, if they want that.
Also, proper examples for updating the runlevels structure need to be added
to policy.
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Henrique Holschuh
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