I am happy to report that another mile stone for the release goal of making it possible to enable dependency based boot sequencing is reached.
98% of all packages with init.d scripts now have dependency information in Sid. Most of the remaining 17 packages are being removed from the archive, and will probably be fixed that way. All base and desktop packages and include the dependency information. The updated packages are propagating slowly into Lenny, allowing more users to test dependency based boot sequencing. Now the dependency information in the scripts need to be tested and used to detect errors in them. Also, the Debian policy should be updated to document that such headers should be included, and a text proposal need to be written for this. Also, it would be nice to adjust insserv to work with file-rc as well as the current implementation handling sysv-rc. It would be useful to check automatically all init.d scripts in the archive for dependency loops, perhaps regularly. I've used dependency based init.d sequencing in my sid chroot for about a year now, and it has worked just fine. To test it yourself, see the talk I gave at at Debconf, linked in from the status wiki page, <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot>. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
