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Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot



On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:15:48PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:00:00AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> > > [Sven Joachim]
> > >> I beg to disagree, it is already unsupportable because the only way
> > >> to test it is to set up a lenny system, create some local init
> > >> script without LSB headers to prevent migration to dependency based
> > >> boot, and then upgrade all the way to squeeze and wheezy.
> > > You can also install file-rc.  It only handle the static script
> > > ordering, and when switching the static ordering is activated.  :)
> > Or seed the debconf value and override file for legacy bootordering
> > before (c)debootstrap:
> [...]
> >         echo  >$F "Name: sysv-rc/convert-legacy"
> >         echo >>$F "Template: sysv-rc/convert-legacy"
> >         echo >>$F "Value: false"
> >         echo >>$F "Owners: sysv-rc"
> 
> Given that skipping a release isn't supported and as this has been in squeeze,
> can it be dropped from sysv-rc, please?

I can't see why not at first glance--it's done its job, so should
no longer be needed.

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