Do we need a read-rc.d?
Packages that need to change their init script execution order during an update have a problem: sysv-rc's and file-rc's abstraction layer (which is access through update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d) doesn't offer read access. Hence, it is impossible to see whether the execution order has been locally modified without interfering with the internal mechanisms of the appropriate package.
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