Bug#376925: initramfs-tools: init should say 'Will now load...'!

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

reassign 376925 initscripts
retitle 376925 init shouldn't use first person
stop

hello curt,

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006, curt manucredo (hansycm) wrote:
<snipp confusing first report> 
>
> >you might want to read chapter 6.5 from the developers reference
> >-> 
> >http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-config-mgmt
> >
> >(6.5.2.5) the computer is not a person.
> 
> Thank you for kindly pointing at this! But then, ...
> 
> >
> >"Loading, please wait..." pretty much describes politely what's going on,
> >the os is _loading_.
> 
> ...when swap gets mounted and local file-systems, it says: 'Will now 
> activate swap' and 'Will now mount local file-systems'.
> this was my intention for this whishlist-bug! --> '...not...very round...'

well agreed, although once init is called that can no longer happen in
initramfs-tools. Please better research next time the corresponding
package. "Will now" strings are abundant in initscripts as 
grep "Will now" -r /etc/init.d/ | egrep 'log_'
easily shows in mountall.sh, checkroot.sh
and once init is called the initramfs-tools business is finished ;)

 
hmm no patch yet for this issue although it should be trivial to
construct.

best regards
 
-- 
maks

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