Package: startpar Version: 0.61-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I get a feeling that startpar doesn't work as it was intended. That is, it doesn't parallel the service starting at the boot. I've conducted a couple of experiments: first, with makefile-style boot and startpar (the default one) and second, without startpar, by creating the /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering file. Both of them yielded about the same time, 21±1 sec for me. More than that, after reading its man page, I've tried to run startpar this way: /lib/startpar/startpar sleep sleep sleep -a 10 And sure enough, it starts three sleep processes one by one and finishes after 30 seconds instead of 10. I might be wrong, but doesn't this mean that startpar is basically useless now? -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages startpar depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 startpar recommends no packages. Versions of packages startpar suggests: ii insserv 1.18.0-2 ii sysv-rc 2.93-8 -- no debconf information
