Package: bittorrent
Version: 3.4.2-6
Severity: wishlist

To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts.  The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format useful for this purpose, and adding such header to
the bittorrent init.d script would make it possible to use this
information to check the current sequence and speed up the debian
boot. This work is in progress as part of "Improving the debian boot" in
<URL:http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/>.

<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
explains how to make an LSB-compliant script with Debian.

The main issue is to know which scripts must executed before bittorrent
starts (Required-Start). Besides, which scripts should be executed
before if installed (Should-Start). The following is an example of how
it should look like:

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          bittorrent
# Required-Start:    scripts-needed
# Required-Stop:     scripts-needed
# Should-Start:      script-that-may-not-be-installed
# Should-Stop:       script-that-may-not-be-installed
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Scatter-gatter network file transfer
# Description:       BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's
#                    extremely easy to use - downloads are started by
#                    clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one
#                    person is downloading at once they send pieces of
#                    the file(s) to each other, thus relieving the
#                    central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
#                    simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the
#                    central server remains quite small, since each new
#                    downloader introduces new upload capacity.
### END INIT INFO


I am using Debian GNU/Linux Unstable, kernel 2.6.16-2-486

cheers,

Carlos Villegas



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