Devuan bug report logs - #917
/usr/sbin/kexec: The /etc/init.d/kexec script is now missing, breaking kexec functionality.

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Package: kexec-tools; Maintainer for kexec-tools is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for kexec-tools is src:kexec-tools.

Reported by: David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@posteo.de>

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Found in version 1:2.0.29-2

Fixed in version 1:2.0.32-3devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/1111802

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> The Debian maintainer appears open to resolving it. It may be worthwhile asking
> politely if there is a solution pending.

The Debian bug has been closed, but just having the initscripts as examples is
inadequate for our use.

I suppose there is no alternative other than to fork to replace them.

Mark

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