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by JdeBP 2590 days ago
Actually, yes they did. The use of /sbin/init was something that came up during the Debian Hoo-Hah. The conclusion was that it should be a symbolic link, and that there should be distinct packages providing that link and providing the real executable program image file that it points to.

* https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie&searchon=con...

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That's exactly what pcp-dstat does. /use/bin/dstat is a symbolic link.