Alessandro Vesely via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base#Limitations_on_Debian

Ah, that helps. I was confusing LSB with FSH and LSB headers - not that I ever followed such detail closely.

>> What's left in Debian are bits that are actually used by some programs.
>
> Such as the LSB headers in init scripts?
>
> Some SysV init maintainers have very strict opinions on those headers,
> considered a language for the insserv "compiler". They horrified at the idea
> that a sysadmin could still manually number some links in rc?.d, thereby
> rejecting the idea of stable renumbering in order to keep existing order where
> possible (fix-init).

And contributing to the "SysVInit is bad - it's scripts are too long" "argument" from certain quarters.

Simon