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Re: Proposed release goal for lenny: Switch to dependency based boot system



Frans Pop wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> I am aware of this, but believe you do not have to worry as much as
>> you do.  As far as I can see all of your problems originated from the
>> lvm2 script missing headers, and my bad decision to drop override
>> files for packages with headers in unstable, while forgetting to make
>> sure those headers were also making it to testing before the new
>> version of insserv.
> 
> Sure, I'm aware of all that. However, that does not take away my general
> impression that insserv is not stable, mature and tested enough to be
> promoted to the default mechanism.
> 
> You've done a huge amount of work on this, and I for one appreciate that.
> But IMO insserv needs a bit more time and development before we can trust
> our whole distro to it.
> 
> But that's all it is: my opinion. I hope some others who have done similar
> testing will speak up as well, so the final decision can be based on more
> than just your opinion as maintainer and mine.

Note that the Release Team's understanding of the Release Goal is making
it possible to switch to a dependency based boot system, not making it
the default... So for the latter you'll still need to persuade us... :-)

Cheers

Luk


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