Package: bootchart2 Version: 0.14.4-1.1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 9.11
The bootchart2 package currently ships systemd unit files, but no init script. This means the behavior is different when booting with systemd than when booting with sysvinit. This appears to be a violation of Policy 9.11: [A]ny package integrating with other init systems must also be backwards-compatible with `sysvinit' by providing a SysV-style init script with the same name as and equivalent functionality to any init-specific job, as this is the only start-up configuration method guaranteed to be supported by all init implementations. In practice, my experience is that if I install bootchart, then install bootchart2 without purging bootchart, and boot with systemd, systemd gets very confused and leaves the bootchart daemon running indefinitely. In contrast, if I boot with sysvinit, the init script in /etc/rc2.d/ does a perfectly adequate job of stopping bootchartd at the right point. So the lack of sysvinit integration looks to actually hurt integration with systemd too. BTW, Ubuntu uses an initramfs hook instead of a boot argument as the means of starting bootchart (for bootchart 1). Have you considered including such a method in the package? It seems obvious to me that we would want bootcharting of the initramfs to be included by default. I'm happy to work out a patch for this if that would be of use. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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