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Re: Ubuntu Patches



On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 21, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I see that Ubuntu has done a lot of work to make initscripts send output
> > through lsb printing functions.  Are there any plans for Debian to adopt
> > these changes?
> 
> The first step would be for somebody to make a debian lsb-base package,
> possibly with a default "theme" which matches the current style of boot
> time messages.

Certainly one problem with the current Ubuntu approach is that it isn't
properly "themeable", i.e. the display style is in code in /lib so you
can't customise it locally without having it trashed on upgrade, and so
on. Fixing that would be good.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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