[2018-12-20 09:34] KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:40:48PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > control: tags -1 +moreinfo > > > > [2015-12-01 23:07] Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> > > > In my view, /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS should not be > > > conffiles. They should be moved to /lib/init/ instead. > > > > Dear co-maintainers, what about actually moving /etc/init.d/{rc,rcS} > > into /lib/init and adding symbolic links? > > > > Any objections to this approach? > > Why shall we move it at all?
Because sysadmin usually assume, that edits of anything under /etc will be preserved between upgrades. And /etc/init.d/{rc,rcS} violate this expectation.