Hi! On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 14:56:56 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014, at 12:24, 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. > > I haven't noticed if this was mentioned before, but dpkg-trigger on > /etc/inittab doesn't work? > > e.g. > > interest /etc/inittab
It should not, because the file is not managed by dpkg, and no one AFAIK is explicitly activating that file trigger. (And remember, always consider if using the -noawait trigger variants is more appropriate, as that makes the upgrade path way easier, and avoids possible trigger cycles.) Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141209142736.ga28...@gaara.hadrons.org