On Sun January 16 2011 04:40:02 Olaf van der Spek wrote: > AFAIK insserv doesn't guess. "Much less info" is the dependencies > listed in the scripts themselves, right? Isn't this enough?
That is correct. However there are far fewer dependencies listed in the headers than implicit in the Snn/Knn numbers, so some but not all previously working systems are broken. > Is the problem insserv itself or wrong dependency lists? The problem is wrong thinking. Snn/Knn implicitly contain many dependencies which are not needed on most systems, so they are not included in the scripts. However removing those dependencies breaks some but not all systems. That is why people should be given accurate information in order to be able to make an informed choice, instead of being tricked into using insserv and breaking their systems. I filed a bug[1] with a simple patch[2] to give people fair notice of the pros and cons of insserv but unfortunately Julien Cristau simply closed the bug without explanation[3]. --Mike Bird [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610185 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=sysv-rc-postinst-clarification.patch;att=1;bug=610185 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=610185 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101161048.24614.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net
