[Merge] lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/utopic/sysvinit/unreviewed into lp:ubuntu/sysvinit

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 06:33:19AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Debian has
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-
> maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=0da7086
> > for this problem on the systemd side. So I guess we need the moral
> > equivalent for upstart?
> 
> The use of '.sh' extensions for init scripts is deprecated, and there is a
> small and finite set that need to be handled.  Furthermore, mapping these
> job names would need to be done in C for upstart (since it's startpar that
> provides the bridging at boot time), and not all of the .sh init scripts
> could be handled as direct translations due to differences in the job
> lifecycles (services vs. tasks in upstart).  So the solution here is just to
> provide the missing /etc/init/hostname.sh.conf wrapper job, to go with the
> other wrapper jobs that mountall is already providing.

My understanding is that in above commit it has to drop .sh suffix, because systemd drops .sh suffix from init-scripts when it inventories them into units. But, I would have expected systemd to also add ".sh" alias to those units & all the systemctl commands to still work with either names...
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