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Michael Biebl wrote:
> I agree with Sjoerd. It's definitely not an RC bug.

Why?

Lack of solution is not an argument for lowering severity.



> If you want to control the starting of hal via policy-rc.d, you have to
> do that indirectly via the dbus init script.

How?

On a system with policy-d responding errorcode 101 always, the hal
daemon is started on package update.



> We are basically bound by the limitations of our current init system.

I agree. Which means this bug stays open, not that severity is low.



> As hal depends on dbus, it has to be restarted/stopped when dbus is
> restarted/stopped. That's why we came up with the solution we have now.
> Having the hal start script installed as init script in /etc/init.d/
> would cause more problems than it would solve.

I agree that the current approach is better for most cases, and I do not
suggest to change to a simpler approach.

But still, the current approach does not follow policy, and it does
cause real harm for some.



 - Jonas

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