Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Steven Chamberlain writes ("Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au"):
> Then he gives a preference for Debian's own insserv and startpar.  It
> allows for boot order to be fixed (after running insserv once, the same
> /etc/rc2.d/Sxx numbering may be rsync'd out to many machines).  startpar
> allows for some limited/controlled amount of concurrency to happen, for
> extra speed.

I think that what this shows is how valuable it is for our downstreams
that Debian is flexible and doesn't impose a particular approach.

I'm coming round to the view that we should be planning to support
multiple systems indefinitely.

Ian.