Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@freenet.de) said:
Perhaps it become clearer if we find such a package and discuss what we'd like an upgrade to perform.
E.g. customizing/fixing init priorities,
There are overrides for this in rawhide. See the latest chkconfig package.
buggy init-scripts with local bug-fixes applied, ...
That could apply to *anything*, whether it be /usr/bin/find or /etc/init.d/sshd. Special-casing something just because it happens to be shell seems misguided.
Bill