[2020-05-29 16:17] Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> > Hi Dmitry,
Hi, > >With legacy bootordering gone in 2012, it is safe to remove check for > >/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering from /etc/init.d/rc script. > > I disagree here: touching this file was a good way (and needed in some > cases I don’t remember any more) for getting back reliable boot, and I > have this file in my standard instructions for setting up a Debian sy‐ > stem… on systems even as recent as buster booting worked with it. > > So please bring it back by reverting commit 340c02c2d3ef1d9cad35129e2. > I’ll commit that to sysvinit’s packaging repo unless objection is rai‐ > sed within a week. I can't bring anything back. I gave up all Debian-related credentials. > Dmitry, sorry to disturb but, if I may ask, what, other than “we don’t > enable legacy-bootordering any more and require insserv” motivated the > commit? Nothing else. > It’s still useful to avoid parallel boot… (/proc/cmdline can’t > be controlled in all environments and removing the .depend.* files… is > probably not right either). From purity poing of view, I would disagree: if you have very special situation that you can't configure bootloader to set /proc/cmdline /and/ need sequencial boot, then peeking on implementation detail and removing /etc/.depend.* is fine answer. On other hand, from practicality point of view, we are talking about mere 3 lines, and if they can keep somebody's old-and-tried setup working, then it worth it.
