Hi, As a follow-up to myself, and as suggested by Kel Modderman, please also CC replies to the developer list for initscripts-ng. (Full message kept for those people.)
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:33:10PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > Hi, > > Disclaimer: I've been pretty busy recently, not giving my Debian > packages the care and love they deserve. That's why I'm now asking for > help, somewhat late... > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 03:35:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > > > * Prepare init.d-Scripts for dependency-based init systems > > > > Wider testing of dependency-based init systems has lead to some new bugs > > for this goal, but the current state looks quite well. We are confident > > that we will have full support for dep-based init system in lenny. > > One of my packages, namely athcool installs an init script that is not > yet compatible with dependency-based init systems. For some reason, it > was not detected by automatic systems such as lintian, and no bug was > filed against it, and no-one cared about it yet. > > Athcool installs an init script but does not install links to run it on > boot, and that might be the reason why lintian did not notice about it. > (No startup link is installed because athcool causes bad stability > issues on some systems. If one tests it and experiences such problems, > the system is back to a normal state after a reboot.) Someone who is > satisfied with athcool can run update-rc.d (as documented in > /usr/share/doc/athcool/README.Debian) to enable startup links. > > I'd like to reproduce a similar behaviour with the headers for > dependency-based init systems, but I know close to nothing about such > systems. I read the corresponding section of the LSB, but it did not > help me much. I guess I could set Default-Start and Default-Stop empty. > But then I have no idea how I would document the enablement of startup > links by the user. Since those keywords are called "Default", I guess > there is a way to override them, but how? Or I think one might change > the Default-Start and Default-Stop keyworks, but then who would they ask > the system to take the change into account? > > Any help is welcome, especially as a patch or a NMU, but please don't > forget the documentation issue. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Nicolas > > > PS: I have no time to read d-devel; please CC replies to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
