Re: debian 8

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4now@gmail.com):
> Gene, didja notice this running the command line
> ric@iam:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
> [sudo] password for ric:
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
> falling back to defaults
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
> falling back to defaults
> ric@iam:~$
> 
> I am assuming that cryptic message means nothing was changed?
> This is happening to me running Jessie. Is this a bug? :( Ric

These messages don't mean that nothing has changed. One sees them
frequently when packages are upgraded and run their postinst scripts.

wheezy's man update-rc.d has

       update-rc.d  [-n] name start|stop NN runlevel [runlevel]...  .  start|stop NN runlevel [runlevel]...  . ...

but jessie's man update-rc.d doesn't.

Many postinst scripts (about a dozen here) have lines like

if [ -x "/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon" ]; then
        update-rc.d avahi-daemon start 14 2 3 4 5 . stop 86 0 1 6 . >/dev/null

which makes   sub cmp_args_with_defaults   in update-rc.d
emit these lines.

I haven't read the script in detail but I'm guessing it's something to
do with the move to parallel execution of init scripts.

Cheers,
David.