(debian-policy.info)Interfacing with init systems

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9.3.3 Interfacing with init systems
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Maintainers should use the abstraction layer provided by the
‘update-rc.d’ and ‘invoke-rc.d’ programs to deal with initscripts in
their packages’ scripts such as ‘postinst’, ‘prerm’ and ‘postrm’.

Directly managing the /etc/rc?.d links and directly invoking the
‘/etc/init.d/’ initscripts should be done only by packages providing the
initscript subsystem (such as ‘sysv-rc’ and ‘file-rc’).

Managing the links

Running initscripts