Re: [sysvinit-devel] Addressing bugs and older packages on Debian/Devuan

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Jesse Smith]
> I think that has already been done. Debian has one package called
> initscripts and another called sysvinit-core and another, related
> package called sysvinit-utils. Unfortunately, users often don't know
> which component is causing a problem which leads to a lot of bugs being
> filed against init (the software) instead of the init scripts.

It is not done, see <URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sysvinit >.
They all come from the same source package.  I believe it is a good idea
to make them come out of separate source packages.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen