Package: kexec-tools
Followup-For: Bug #1111802
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it's necessary for sysvinit, you might consider adding it to
> orphan-sysvinit-scripts where people that care for sysvinit can actually
> test and verify that the script works.
It has been necessary for sysvinit since forever, and still is in trixie.
Moreover, the script copied verbatim from bookworm works flawlessly:
no change required. Surprise!
At every major debian release, perfectly working init scripts disappear
from packages such as nftables, rsyslog, kexec-tools not for being buggy
or useless but because they are not needed anymore for systemd.
Perhaps the o-s-s people will pick them up from the garbage can for the
next release, but in the current release something stays broken.
Breaking things gratuitously for people that still use SysV will
perhaps persuade them to finally switch to systemd-sysv, but is not
very respectful.
By the way
$ dpkg -s init | grep Dep
Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core
is still true in trixie.
Regards,
g.b.
