Hi, With the release of wheezy, all systems should be using dependency- based booting. This makes the provision of static sequence ordering pointless, but the update-rc.d interface still allows sequence numbers to be passed for its start, stop and defaults actions. They just get ignored when using insserv, but they still need providing unless you are using defaults with no options (which is recommended).
I'm planning on merging these two patches: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rleigh/sysvinit.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ed24526866d93e28ae3a501b131d5efe002f11a http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rleigh/sysvinit.git;a=commitdiff;h=48daa9d5c8e28f8669e5b85cd369605c8254232c These do the following: - remove all support for non-dependency-based boot; in practice, this code hasn't been used for a couple of stable releases, since we always used the insserv code. - remove support for start and stop; the options still exist, but they just invoke the "defaults" action. This was already the case with insserv, but it's now explicit. - the update-rc.d(8) manpage is updated to remove all the legacy documentation and examples. This should make it clear what's currently supported, and it greatly simplifies the interface. None of this should affect anyone since in practice there will be no noticable difference other than the addition of a warning if the start or stop actions are used. I'm just bringing it up in case this will cause anyone problems--in which case shout now before it's changed! Following this change, I'd like to have debhelper and lintian warn if the obsolete options are used, then we can start to migrate the remaining uses of the old options to just use "defaults" in their maintainer scripts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- 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/20130519154702.ge31...@codelibre.net
