Hello people,

I'm working on making Fedora being able to function completely without the 'initscripts' package (hopefully) some day in the future. I have done some cleanup in initscripts recently, and I would like to ask maintainers of packages listed below to check if their package(s) still really need the initscripts package to function properly (for any reason).

It seems that for many packages the requirement of initscripts is just a leftover from past. If the package does not need the initscripts any longer, please remove the requirement in Rawhide (F29) and forward. (Do not backport this change into F28 or F27, it would break things.)

NOTE: In case you are depending on initscripts because of networking scripts (ifup/ifdown, etc.), then you will need to update your specfile to depend directly on new package 'network-scripts' (instead of 'initscripts').

I've opened bug reports for each of the packages listed here, and created a tracking BZ for it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592330

List of packages still depending on initscripts (some of them were already fixed):
 3proxy
 barry
 boomaga-selinux
 Canna
 clamsmtp
 conmux
 crossfire-selinux
 cyphesis
 device-mapper-multipath
 dpm-xrootd
 ebnetd-common
 exim
 exim-clamav
 foghorn
 freeipa-client
 glpi
 groonga-munin-plugins
 groonga-server-gqtp
 iipsrv
 isdn4k-utils
 kbd
 libstoragemgmt
 mailman-3
 nightview-server
 node
 ntop
 numad
 omniORB
 openslp-server
 os-net-config
 pcp
 pcsc-cyberjack
 pgbouncer
 plymouth
 ppp
 pure-ftpd-selinux
 ratbox-services
 sagator-core
 spacewalk-config
 spamassassin
 spawn-fcgi
 sslogger
 systemtap-initscript
 systemtap-server
 tigervnc-server-minimal
 torque-mom
 torque-scheduler
 torque-server
 trafficserver
 varnish
 vdsm
 vhostmd
 vpnc
 vte
 vte291
 vte3
 wine-desktop
 xboxdrv

Thank you, and best regards! :)

David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
Associate Software Engineer

Brno, Czech Republic


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