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Re: Please unblock avahi 0.6.23-2



On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:13:15PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Marc Brockschmidt]
> > What about a simple solution: Ask dpkg if sysvrc is installed. If
> > not: Do the update-rc.d remove/start dance as currently
> > implemented. If it used, check the current state of /etc/rc?.d/ and
> > insert the new links accordingly to that. Would you be willing to
> > implement this? It wouldn't worsen the situation, would improve it
> > for a large majority of users and doesn't require APIs that are not
> > available (yet).

> Note that sysv-rc is installed also when dependency based boot
> sequencing (insserv) is enabled, and when it is enabled, the sequence
> numbers are not fixed.  So it is not enough to check if sysv-rc is
> installed.

Why do sequence numbers matter for *dependency*-based boot sequences?

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