Hi Andreas,

thanks for your interest in this topic.

Aside from /bin/pidof, we also have

/sbin/fstab-decode
/sbin/killall5

I haven't checked codesearch if those binaries are used outside of
sysvinit/initscripts. Have you investigated those recently?


And there is also
/lib/init/init-d-script
/lib/init/vars.sh

Those are the more tricky ones. A lot of init scripts use them.
Not having those installed will render the init scripts of packages
broken. It's less of an issue, if a package ships a native service file.
(Do we know for how many this is the case, i.e. no .service file, SysV
init script using init-d-script and/or vars.sh?)
Also, we have /etc/init.d/foo → redirection to systemctl broken unless
/lib/lsb/init-functions is the first thing that is sourced.
Maybe that breakage is acceptable? Dunno.
What are your thoughts here?

Given the size of the sysvinit-utils package, last time I looked into
this I concluded it's probably not worth the trouble. But maybe things
have changed by now.

Regards,
Michael

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