Re: initscripts: using "/etc/init.d/<package>"

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:38:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> sysvinit is:
>
> Package: sysvinit
> Essential: yes
> Pre-Depends: [...] sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-1.2) | file-rc (>> 0.7.0), [...]
>
> And both sysv-rc and file-rc provide invoke-rc.d.  Since sysv-rc was split
> out of the sysvinit specifically to allow the alternative with file-rc, I
> think it's still intended that invoke-rc.d be regarded as an Essential
> interface?

Hm, yeah, probably so.

Should we remove the fallback code in the Policy example and recommend
people use invoke-rc.d unconditionally?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>