Devuan bug report logs - #881
invoke-rc.d: Policy layer may override runlevel constraint

Package: init-system-helpers; Maintainer for init-system-helpers is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for init-system-helpers is src:init-system-helpers.

Reported by: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo

Merged with 882, 883, 884

Found in version init-system-helpers/1.65.2devuan1

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>
Cc: 881@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#881: invoke-rc.d: Policy layer may override runlevel
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Opty wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks for this. However, I find your report a bit terse.
> >
> > Do you have policy-rcd-declarative installed? If so what is usage for it? How do
> > you have a permissive policy defined?
> 
> Hopefully the whole story so far:
> 
> I wanted to disable services auto(re)start on package install/upgrade

Why? The usual rationale is to *want* restart on upgrade so that the newly
installed version is actually running (with any security fixes that might
bring).

To start or not on install is specified in the package by the maintainer.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #881 invoke-rc.d: Policy layer may override runlevel constraint

Devuan bug report logs - #881
invoke-rc.d: Policy layer may override runlevel constraint