On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:57:28 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >> policy-rc.d is supposed to be configured (and thus edited) by the > >> local admin. It should thus not live in /usr/sbin. > > > > It is supposed to be supplied under the Debian alternatives subsystem or > > something equivalent, which will install a symlink there. In fact, it will > > install a symlink to /etc/alternatives/policy-rc.d, which will be another > > symlink there to the active "alternative". > > But nobody ever does that. > > > The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d symlink would be created and managed by the > > packages providing policy-rc.d, through /usr/sbin/update-alternatives. The > > local admin can do the same if he wants. Or he can just add a real file in > > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and update-alternatives should leave it alone. > > > > Nobody ever found a reason to package a general-use policy-rc.d, although > > the feature is directly used by some tools that create private chroots, such > > as pbuilder. > > That's the most common use (also by d-i as far as I remember). And > sometimes people write their own policy-rc.d. > > In all cases, it's a configuration choice and not shipped by a package, > and so belongs below /etc. > > >> Please support using a policy-rc.d located under /etc (and leave > >> /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as a legacy location). > > > > AFAIK, there is no strong technical reason to change the policy-rc.d ABI at > > this time, so I will downgrade this to wishlist and tag it wontfix. > > Well, it doesn't break any old use. It's an ABI-compatible change ;) >
I think /etc/ is a weird place, /usr/local/sbin might be more appropriate.
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