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On 01/16/2016 06:51 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 15-01-16 07:37, Robert Yang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/15/2016 02:27 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>> How about /etc/init.d and /etc/rcS.d? Are these now suddenly CONFFILES
>>> too?
>>
>> For /etc/init.d/*, yes, and I think that they should be CONFFILES.
>
> Startup scripts are config files? Wow that's news to me.

Yes, debian treats startup scripts as config files.

>
> They all include /etc/defaults/something for a good reason: So you don't have to
> hack the script.
>
>> For /etc/rcS.d/*, they are symlinks which are not owned by pkg,
>> but created by update-rc.d.
>
> Only if the recipe happens to use update-rc. Quite some packages don't use it
> and just create the symlinks themselves.
>
>
> As I recall, this suggestion has been made before and was rejected then. Nothing
> really changed since.

I had sent this patch before, but I didn't see any rejected emails.

// Robert

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