There is a section of policy that need to be adjusted to reflect the new dependency based boot sequencing. Anyone got time to work on this, to come up with a replacement text and guide the change through the policy change process?
This is the part that need to change, from <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html>: 9.3.3 Interfacing with the initscript system 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). __________________________________________________________________ 9.3.3.1 Managing the links The program update-rc.d is provided for package maintainers to arrange for the proper creation and removal of /etc/rcn.d symbolic links, or their functional equivalent if another method is being used. This may be used by maintainers in their packages' postinst and postrm scripts. You must not include any /etc/rcn.d symbolic links in the actual archive or manually create or remove the symbolic links in maintainer scripts; you must use the update-rc.d program instead. (The former will fail if an alternative method of maintaining runlevel information is being used.) You must not include the /etc/rcn.d directories themselves in the archive either. (Only the sysvinit package may do so.) By default update-rc.d will start services in each of the multi-user state runlevels (2, 3, 4, and 5) and stop them in the halt runlevel (0), the single-user runlevel (1) and the reboot runlevel (6). The system administrator will have the opportunity to customize runlevels by simply adding, moving, or removing the symbolic links in /etc/rcn.d if symbolic links are being used, or by modifying /etc/runlevel.conf if the file-rc method is being used. To get the default behavior for your package, put in your postinst script update-rc.d package defaults and in your postrm if [ "$1" = purge ]; then update-rc.d package remove fi . Note that if your package changes runlevels or priority, you may have to remove and recreate the links, since otherwise the old links may persist. Refer to the documentation of update-rc.d. This will use a default sequence number of 20. If it does not matter when or in which order the init.d script is run, use this default. If it does, then you should talk to the maintainer of the sysvinit package or post to debian-devel, and they will help you choose a number. For more information about using update-rc.d, please consult its man page update-rc.d(8). The update-rc.d manual page have been updated in unstable, but could use some more work too. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel