Hi,

> Justification: Breaks silently functionality on upgrade

not if you'd use the default init system.

> In my setup, gpsd is required to start at system boot with a sysv
> init.

That is not supported by the gpsd upstream anymore, all the
hotplugging/udev rules require systemd (which makes a lot of sense!),
and to avoid a mess in debugging this, I'm not going to change this.


> The upgrading process stops the running gpsd, and without the
> init script, it is not restarted, resulting in a system without
> gps information.
> 
> Please bring the init script back.
no. please use systemd.


Bernd


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