[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#718232: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported

[Thomas Hood]

Thanks for the report.  I wasn't aware of this issue.

It seems the "start" and "stop" arguments are now deprecated. Roger Leigh
announced this debian-devel.

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01109.html

We should go with the flow and stop using "start" and "stop". Here's the
postinst code that needs to be changed.

    # Automatically added by dh_installinit
    if [ -x "/etc/init.d/resolvconf" ]; then
            update-rc.d resolvconf start 38 S . stop 89 0 6 . >/dev/null ||
exit $?
    fi
    # End automatically added section

This arises from the following line in debian/rules.

    dh_installinit --no-start -- start 38 S . stop 89 0 6 .

I see that Roger Leigh has opened a report (#717592) against debhelper
asking that dh_installinit not pass through "start" and "stop".  But we
shouldn't rely on this.

I guess the debian/rules line should be simply the following.

    dh_installinit --no-start

-- 
Thomas
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