Comment 17 for bug 1323274

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

> Sorry, this probably was confusing to everyone except Dimitri and me.
> The goal here is merely to make Ubuntu compatible to insserv. In
> particular, any declared LSB dependency in our init.d scripts actually
> needs to exist. But we don't want to change actual behaviour, i. e. in
> this case we will put back the alsa-utils init.d script for insserv to
> be able to compute dependencies, but we'll also add an alsa-utils
> upstart job which is a no-op (similar to the systemd alsa-utils unit
> which is also just a /dev/null).

For me it would probably be less confusing to fix mpd (and possibly others) to not depend on alsa-utils, instead of adding no-op jobs and service files...?