]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:24:11AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:08:49PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > On 24/11/14 21:41, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > > > Better than (2) would be to make the existence of /etc/inittab still > > > > > essential for jessie, by moving the corresponding code from > > > > > sysvinit-core into the essential init package. What do you think? > > > > > > > > If you go this route, I think initscripts might be a better home for > > > > > > As I wrote above, I actually don't have the time to go any road at all. > > > > > > The packages worked just fine until I learnt that support for the > > > inittab interface is dropped in jessie. I fixed the packages. Now I > > > learnt that the existence of /etc/inittab is no longer essential, next > > > thing breaking my packages - when switching jessie to sysvinit. > > > > > > Please advise whether I should reassign this release critically to the > > > init and sysvinit packages, or upload the ugly workaround to copy > > > sysvinit maintainer script code for generating /etc/inittab into the two > > > affected packages. > > > > Hi init and sysvinit maintainers, it looks like I don't get reasonable > > advise on debian-devel. > > > > What is your stand on this? > > You *are* allowed to create /etc/inittab when it is missing.
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