Do not create /etc/service symbolic link in maintainer script of -run packages. It simplifies maintainace at cost of creation of empty directories in runit binary package. But since it is rare to install runit, but none of -run packages, trade-off seems justified.

4 files changed, 4 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3b6d29f..6c20df2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ dh-runit (1.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Do not create /etc/runit/runsvdir/default directory. Instead, it is
     provided by runit binary package. It saved us trouble of ensuring,
     that directory is removed at apporiate time.
+  * Do not create /etc/service symbolic link in maintainer script of
+    -run packages. It simplifies maintainace at cost of creation
+    of empty directories in runit binary package. But since it is rare
+    to install runit, but none of -run packages, trade-off seems justified.
 
  -- Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>  Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:00:10 +0300
 
diff --git a/debian/dh-runit.install b/debian/dh-runit.install
index 5b296b5..bc52d23 100644
--- a/debian/dh-runit.install
+++ b/debian/dh-runit.install
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 dh_runit /usr/bin
-preinst-runit  /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
 postinst-runit /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
 prerm-runit    /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
 postrm-runit   /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
diff --git a/dh_runit b/dh_runit
index 6bce272..5dbbb6e 100755
--- a/dh_runit
+++ b/dh_runit
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ PKG: foreach my $pkg (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
     my $tmp = tmpdir($pkg);
     my $sv_dir = "$tmp/etc/sv";
 
-    runit_autoscript($pkg, 'preinst', '');
     install_dir($sv_dir);
 
     for (@entries) {
diff --git a/preinst-runit b/preinst-runit
deleted file mode 100644
index 23d8792..0000000
--- a/preinst-runit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# -*- shell-script -*-
-SV_CURRENT=/etc/runit/runsvdir/current
-SV_DEFAULT=/etc/runit/runsvdir/default
-SV_DIR=/etc/service
-
-if [ ! -e "$SV_CURRENT" ] ; then
-    ln -s default "$SV_CURRENT"
-elif [ ! -L "$SV_CURRENT" ] ; then
-    echo "unsupported: $SV_CURRENT exists, but is not symbolic link"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e "$SV_DIR" ] ; then
-    ln -sn "$SV_CURRENT" "$SV_DIR"
-fi
-
-if [ "$(readlink "$SV_DIR")" != "$SV_CURRENT" ] ; then
-    echo "unsupported: $SV_DIR exists, but does not point to $SV_CURRENT"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# Local Variables:
-# eval: (sh-set-shell "sh" t nil)
-# End: