[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#781766: sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:24:53 -0700 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
wrote:
> sysvinit-core depends on initscripts, but sysvinit does not.  However,
> sysvinit ships /lib/sysvinit/init, and it should be possible to use
> sysvinit by booting with init=/lib/sysvinit/init without having
> sysvinit-core installed.  Thus, sysvinit needs to have dependencies on
> any packages needed for a functional sysvinit init system, including
> initscripts (and potentially other dependencies of sysvinit-core).

The sysvinit package (as shipped in jessie) was mostly intended as a
transitional measure when upgrading from wheezy to jessie.
I tried to make that clear also in the package description.

Keep in mind, that when installing jessie from scratch, there will be no
/etc/inittab. This means, installing the sysvinit package (in parallel
to systemd-sysv) will not result in a bootable system via
init=/lib/sysvinit/init.

Now, if there is desire to make the sysvinit package useful beyond the
wheezy -> jessie upgrade, someone would have to deal with this inittab
problem first, I think.

Michael

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