On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Pablo Chinea wrote:
> El Sábado, 23 de Septiembre de 2006 10:19, Steve Langasek escribió:
> > It most certainly is a policy violation.  A package is not allowed to edit
> > a conffile, *ever*.

>   I didn't know it :-S, sorry. Though looking at sysv-rc package I 
> see /etc/init.d/rc is not classified as conffile.

Well, that means there's a bug in sysv-rc because it should be a conffile;
it also means that editing /etc/init.d/rc isn't going to work very well for
you, because the changes would simply be overwritten on each upgrade of
sysv-rc.

> Anyway, I believe that it is better to not edit it, but how? Bootsplash
> needs to know the progress of the initscripts execution.

Please try to coordinate with the sysv-rc maintainer to see if support for
this can be included in the sysv-rc package in a non-disruptive way.

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