Hi Nicolas, On Wednesday 23 July 2008 06:18:43 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?
Just add the LSB header with correct information like: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: athcool # Required-Start: $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors ### END INIT INFO Your package does not call update-rc.d in postinst, courtesy of "dh_installinit -n", therefore no links get created even on insserv system. There is no need to modify README.Debian instructions, as insserv package provides an update-rc.d wrapper. When the admin follows the existing instructions of "update-rc.d athcool start 20 2 3 4 5 ." you will get runlevel links, just that the sequence number 20 is ignored and a more precise sequence number is calculated by insserv. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]