Here is a new quick update on this release goal. There are 10 packages without init.d script dependency headers in unstable/sid, and 13 packages in testing/lenny. Because all of the packages used by Debian Edu now have dependency headers, we have enabled dependency based boot sequencing for the test version of Debian Edu for Lenny.
This testing have exposed a few missing or incorrect dependencies that are reported to BTS and hopefully will be solved in time for Lenny. I expect more testing to discover more errors, as this is the first time some of these dependencies are used. There is need for more testers to find errors in the dependency headers. There should also be drafted a change to the Debian policy to document that all init.d scripts need have the dependency header. <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot > is still the place to look for status information. One unsolved issue with insserv is the handling of scripts with the same provides value (for example kdm/gdm/xdm and postgresql*). I am not sure how to best handle these, and welcome proposals. At the moment such configurations are rejected and the "other" package need to be purged to install a package with a duplicate provides. This confuses some new users of dependency based boot sequencing. Another unsolved issue is how it handles changes in the runlevel list in the header. I hope to have this solved soon. These are the packages without LSB headers in unstable: Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> interchange Artem Baguinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drscheme Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ipmasq Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sean Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nsca Wilmer van der Gaast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bitlbee Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> buildbot Rene Mayrhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gibraltar-bootcd Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Simon Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> blootbot Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sfs Recai Oktas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> elog Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
