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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] rc.local removed from Debian 9, rly?
Le 19/11/2017 à 18:52, Didier Kryn a écrit :
> Le 19/11/2017 à 15:10, Jaromil a écrit :
>> hi all
>>
>> Can anyone clarify how /etc/rc.local is being removed in Debian 9?
>>
>> I got this from rumors in bitcoin's core development, since I'm not
>> subscribed to Debian lists. The rumor is confirmed by some online
>> debates on gitlab and stack overflow.
>>
>> Can someone point out to the decision process for this?
>>
>> Following up after the conversation on redis, when we had the elected
>> Debian leader chiming in here to defend his position and keep deleting
>> init.d scripts, I still believe this is again "even worst than I
>> thought" and it is "vandalism".
>>
>> This will certainly keep playing in favor of our fork since
>> no-nonsense people will come this way, but is very painful to see
>> Debian's users are being mistreated to this point.
>>
>> What is happening, and is a pattern, is that parts of Debian that work
>> well and are widely used by people are being arbitrarily removed. This
>> doesn't make Debian "universal" anymore, while betraying once again
>> its mandate of respecting user's freedom. Noone can trust Debian if it
>> keeps changing things that work for some, just because of imposing a
>> new thing that others like. Well beyond and nothwitstanding the
>> qualities of any free and open source software, Debian is clearly
>> harming another sort of freedom, the sort that was granted in the free
>> space we all knew rc.local has always been..
>>
>> is there any internal discussion about such governance issues in
>> Debian? is there any hope the current leadership will change and
>> perhaps repair what this vandalism is breaking?
>>
>
>     Dunno how difficult it is to re-create rc.local functionality
> under Systemd dictature, but, when init is sysvinit, this doesn't look
> like a diffcult problem. Therefore, don't care (-:
>
>         Didier


    BTW, this was the first time I opened the mail browser on my
all-duty laptop after dist-upgrade (during the past hour) from
Debian-Wheezy to Devuan-Jessie. Feel good. Not expecting issues with
rc.local in the future...

             Didier