On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 08:14:55PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: [...] > Therefore, /etc/init.d/kexec is now superfluous and can be dropped: > sysvinit users don't matter. > > > Perhaps kexec maintainer can be convinced to restore the sysvinit > > script? > > Perhaps, but similar requests for e.g. rsyslog and nftables have been > summarily discarded, so I'm a bit pessimistic. Anyway, it might be too > late for trixie.
It *is* too late for trixie but often package maintainers simply don't realise there remains a constituency of users for the initscript and will accept them back into the package, so I think it's worth a try! One thing I like to do is to trim unnecessary complexity that is no longer relevant, doing convoluted things with legacy environment variables which is contrary to initscript best practice. A slimmer script may be more palatable to an uncertain maintainer. Often one can go further and write a fresh initscript using init-d-script(5) with only a few lines - that might help change package maintainers' preconceptions about initscripts! Andrew
