On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> I believe it soon would be ok to switch unstable to use dependency > >> based boot sequencing by default. > > I have to say that I disagree with that. I have tried insserv on my > > laptop last month and was not all that happy with the way it worked.
> Please note that this decision hasn't been made by the release team > yet. It's a possibility that we may switch to something dependency based > before releasing lenny, but that needs further (and broader) testing. At > the moment, we simply don't have enough experience with dep-based init > in Debian to change something as important as the default of the init > system. Please consider the implications for partial upgrades for such a switch to dep-based init by default in lenny. Having half your services fail to come up after a power event in the middle of a dist-upgrade, despite being in state 'installed', would be Not Nice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

