> The rcN.d format is an excellent design if we can just keep insserv > from mangling it. As I haven't converted one of my systems to dependency based boot yet, there still has to be some way to keep the old way. No idea why there is no documented way to switch that on... It could be that touch /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering dpkg-reconfigure -plow sysv-rc does the trick, but I haven't tried it.