Debian Bug report logs - #32448
[ACCEPTED 17/08/99] Policy still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:06:24 -0500

Package: debian-policy
Version: 2.5.0.0

Section 3.3.4 of the policy manual still suggests the obsolete /etc/rc.boot 
instead of the sysvinit standard of /etc/rcS.d as mentioned in 
/usr/doc/sysvinit, man rc.boot, and lintian.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux brian 2.2.0-final #1 Thu Jan 21 17:55:08 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Message #12 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Alexander N. Benner" <Nikodemus@innocent.com>

To: Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>, 32448@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:29:57 +0100

Hi

Ship's Log, Lt. Brian Servis, Stardate 260199.1406:
> 
> Section 3.3.4 of the policy manual still suggests the obsolete /etc/rc.boot 
> instead of the sysvinit standard of /etc/rcS.d as mentioned in 
> /usr/doc/sysvinit, man rc.boot, and lintian.

on my system (hamm>slink>potato) /etc/rc.boot is not empty.
There are the files 0setserial  adjtimex  console-tools  gom  hwtools  nethack
OTOH dpkg -S /etc/rc.boot doesn't find anything.


Greetings
-- 
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Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, 
my friends, my future mate, and my future children to be sexual abstinent from 
this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship. 1-800-luv-wait

Message #17 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: servis@purdue.edu

To: Nikodemus@innocent.com

Cc: 32448@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:48:24 -0500 (EST)

*- Alexander N. Benner wrote about "Re: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d"
> Hi
> 
> Ship's Log, Lt. Brian Servis, Stardate 260199.1406:
>> 
>> Section 3.3.4 of the policy manual still suggests the obsolete /etc/rc.boot 
>> instead of the sysvinit standard of /etc/rcS.d as mentioned in 
>> /usr/doc/sysvinit, man rc.boot, and lintian.
> 
> on my system (hamm>slink>potato) /etc/rc.boot is not empty.
> There are the files 0setserial  adjtimex  console-tools  gom  hwtools  nethack
> OTOH dpkg -S /etc/rc.boot doesn't find anything.
> 

Yes, each of the packages fails lintian see,
http://www.debian.org/lintian/reports/Tpackage-installs-into-etc-rc.boot.html.

On my slink system 'dpks -S /etc/rc.boot'  gives 
'setserial, hwtools, kbd, sysvinit: /etc/rc.boot'.  So sysvinit is
still installing rc.boot as well, which is acceptable since it is not
banned but obsolete.  

-- 
Brian 
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
							   - unknown  

Mechanical Engineering                                bservis@usa.net
Purdue University                   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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Message #22 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>

To: 32448@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:48:51 +0100 (BST)

I second this, and propose that the section should be reworded as
follows:

3.3.4. Boot-time initialisation
-------------------------------

     There used to be another directory, `/etc/rc.boot', which
     contained scripts which were run once per machine boot.  This has
     been deprecated in favour of links from /etc/rcS.d to files in
     /etc/init.d as described in section 3.3.1.  No packages may place
     files in /etc/rc.boot.

  Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg

Message #27 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 32448@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:28:57 -0700

At 14:48 +0100 1999-05-30, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>I second this, and propose that the section should be reworded as
>follows:
>
>3.3.4. Boot-time initialisation
>-------------------------------
>
>     There used to be another directory, `/etc/rc.boot', which
>     contained scripts which were run once per machine boot.  This has
>     been deprecated in favour of links from /etc/rcS.d to files in
>     /etc/init.d as described in section 3.3.1.  No packages may place
>     files in /etc/rc.boot.

There needs to be something about the fact that rcS scripts matching 
the pattern *.sh are sourced by /etc/init.d/rcS; and should not 
necessarily be required to support all of the standard arguments.
-- 
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                 <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
<URL:http://web.espy.org/>               <URL:http://www.debian.org/>

Message #32 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>

To: jk@espy.org, 32448@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 33826@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:30:50 +0100 (BST)

> At 14:48 +0100 1999-05-30, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >I second this, and propose that the section should be reworded as
> >follows:
> >
> >3.3.4. Boot-time initialisation
> >-------------------------------
> >
> >     There used to be another directory, `/etc/rc.boot', which
> >     contained scripts which were run once per machine boot.  This has
> >     been deprecated in favour of links from /etc/rcS.d to files in
> >     /etc/init.d as described in section 3.3.1.  No packages may place
> >     files in /etc/rc.boot.
> 
> There needs to be something about the fact that rcS scripts matching 
> the pattern *.sh are sourced by /etc/init.d/rcS; and should not 
> necessarily be required to support all of the standard arguments.

Why should they not be?  Which ones should they be?  Anyway, this
belongs with report #33826 (cc'ing).

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg

Message #41 received at 32448@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: 32448@bugs.debian.org

Subject: second

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:19:18 -0700

I second this proposal.

-- 
see shy jo

Message #62 received at 32448-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>

To: 8221-done@bugs.debian.org, 17621-done@bugs.debian.org, 19179-done@bugs.debian.org, 24695-done@bugs.debian.org, 32448-done@bugs.debian.org, 32449-done@bugs.debian.org, 33076-done@bugs.debian.org, 40766-done@bugs.debian.org, 40767-done@bugs.debian.org, 41095-done@bugs.debian.org, 41121-done@bugs.debian.org, 41232-done@bugs.debian.org, 41547-done@bugs.debian.org, 41829-done@bugs.debian.org, 42358-done@bugs.debian.org, 42447-done@bugs.debian.org, 42849-done@bugs.debian.org, 43651-done@bugs.debian.org, 44620-done@bugs.debian.org, 44643-done@bugs.debian.org, 44922-done@bugs.debian.org, 45307-done@bugs.debian.org, 45318-done@bugs.debian.org, 45561-done@bugs.debian.org, 46516-done@bugs.debian.org, 48570-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 21:13:58 +0000 (GMT)

These bugs have been fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0; changelog follows.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg


Changes: debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
  * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
    #45561, #42447, #48570)
  * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
  * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
  * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
    directoried (closes: #41547)
  * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
  * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
    suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
  * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
  * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
  * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
  * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
  * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
  * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
    package criteria (closes: #45318)
  * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
    #41829)
  * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
  * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
  * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
  * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
  * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
  * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
  * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
    #40766, #40767)
  * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
  * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
  * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
  * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
    (closes: #17621)
  * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
    #19179)
  * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
    #41095)
  * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
  * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file

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