As you might be aware, there are several bugs in the Debian boot sequence. The bugs affect some combinations of packages, and are some times hard to solve. To solve them once and for all, I want us to switch to a dependency based sequencing of the symlinks in /etc/rc*.d/. I gave a talk about this at Debconf, see <URL:https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/events/21.en.html> for the slides and more info.
For this to work properly, all init.d scripts need to provide dependency information. There is a standard for specifying such dependency information in the LSB, and already 56% of the Debian packages in unstable include the header with dependency information. This message is for the rest of you. I've created <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot> to track the progress of this work. See also <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts> for clues on how to write such header. The following packages are according to lintian missing the LSB headers. Please add dependency information to these packages soon. Without it, it is very hard to verify the correctness of the debian boot sequence, and equally hard to switch to a dependency based boot sequencing. Some proposed headers are available in the insserv package, directory /usr/share/insserv/override/, so if you are lucky you can pick it from there. 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