Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Current policy states in section 9.3.3.2 ("Running initscripts") the
> following: "The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/*
> initscripts is strongly recommended[51], instead of calling them
> directly."
>
> Footnote 51 further says: "In the future, the use of invoke-rc.d to
> invoke initscripts shall be made mandatory. Maintainers are advised to
> switch to invoke-rc.d as soon as possible."
>
> I propose that the future has arrived.
Seconded.
(BTW, debootstrap should get changed sometime to use an invoke-rc.d
policy instead of its current hack of replacing start-stop-daemon with a
wrapper. d-i also diverts dtart-stop-daemon during the install, but only
as a fallback in case a package not supporting invoke-rc.d is installed.)
Here's the packages by maintainer BTW:
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>
interchange
Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
xpilot-ng
Alan Bain <afrb2@debian.org>
rbootd
Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
exim-html
exim-texinfo
Mark Baker <mark@mnb.org.uk>
exim
Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>
bricolage
thttpd
Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil@kaunas.init.lt>
freedict
Ross Burton <ross@debian.org>
avahi
Scott M. Dier <sdier@debian.org>
bwbar
Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez@debian.org>
adzapper
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>
net-acct
Khalid El Fathi <invent@edena-fr.org>
linuxlogo
Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
libroxen-imho
roxen4
tcpquota
Stephen Frost <sfrost@debian.org>
libnss-ldap
Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
xtide-data
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
gcpegg
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
dict-bouvier
dict-gazetteer2k
dict-moby-thesaurus
Debian Firebird Group <pkg-firebird-general@lists.alioth.debian.org>
firebird2
Debian Mono Group <pkg-mono-group@lists.alioth.debian.org>
xsp
Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
eco5000
slbreflex
Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
autofs
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
clamav-data
Chris Hanson <cph@debian.org>
oss-preserve
Dan Helfman <witten@debian.org>
php4-tclink
Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
dict-devil
dict-elements
dict-gcide
dict-misc
Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
dict-jargon
Simon Horman <horms@debian.org>
heartbeat
heartbeat-2
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
sauce
Sam Johnston <samj@aos.net.au>
reseed
LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
bind
Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com>
battery-stats
Tibor Koleszar <oldw@debian.org>
apcd
Yoshito Komatsu <ykomatsu@debian.org>
canna-shion
Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org>
diald
Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
ntop
Cyril Martin <mcoolive@free.fr>
eagle-usb
Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
fidogate
Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
nas
Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina <rcardenes@debian.org>
pipsecd
Abraham vd Merwe <abz@debian.org>
orca
Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
quota
watchdog
Millis Miller <millis@faztek.org>
iptotal
Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>
tama
Jaakko Niemi <liiwi@debian.org>
sfs
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
nessus-core
Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@debian.org>
uif
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
towitoko
Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>
fonty
Vladimir Shakhov <lumpen.intellectual@gmail.com>
wdm
Preston Smith <psmith@foobird.net>
sendpage
Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <teo@debian.org>
boa
Debian OpenSSL Team <pkg-openssl-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
openssl
openssl097
Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>
mailgraph
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
fml
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
nbd
Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
scanlogd
Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
genpower
jukebox-mercury
squid-prefetch
Discover Workers <discover-workers@lists.progeny.com>
discover
James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>
adjtimex
tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
netsaint-statd
Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org>
gnudip
--
see shy jo
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