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[resending now that the bug is unarchived; sorry for the noise.]

Abhijit Hoskeri wrote:

> The runit package does not have any way ( ex. a debconf variable) to
> avoid inserting the runit entry into inittab. This means that when runit
> is installed in a non-active environment like a CD installation, the
> runit /etc/inittab entry will immediately attempt to start the services
> it comes with.
>
> This feature may not always be desirable, especially if we intend to
> install the runit-run package, in which case /etc/inittab will not be
> used at all.
>
> It would be sufficient to avoid sending SIGHUP to during the postinst,
> or make this optional. Thanks.

Jamie Rollins wrote:

> Anyway, it's not a tragic issue, but there are many instances when
> this package is desired for some of the other binaries it contains
> (such as chpst) and the daemon is not needed or desired at all,
> especially running on start up.

This is not going to happen in squeeze[1], but presumably work
towards taking care of these needs in wheezy would be welcome.

Thanks for some clear reports.
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/605912



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