rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

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 12:46:09 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo

Merged with 881, 882, 884

Found in version init-system-helpers/1.65.2devuan1

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Subject: Re: bug#883: /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d
To: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Cc: 883@bugs.devuan.org
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> Why do you have policy-rcd-declarative-deny-all installed anyway? I suppose the
> rationale goes that if you deny starting services in the first place, you don't
> need to rotate the logs because they will be empty/unchanged.

Please see #881 or should I copy the story here as well?

Regards,
Opty

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Devuan bug report logs - #883 /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

Devuan bug report logs - #883
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