Bug#376953: exim4: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

[Carlos Villegas]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.62-1
Severity: wishlist

To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts.  The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format useful for this purpose, and adding such header to
the exim4 init.d script would make it possible to use this
information to check the current sequence and speed up the debian
boot. This work is in progress as part of "Improving the debian boot" in
<URL:http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/>.

<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
explains how to make an LSB-compliant script with Debian.

The main issue is to know which scripts must executed before acpid
starts (Required-Start). Besides, which scripts should be executed
before if installed (Should-Start). The following is an example of how
it should look like:

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          exim4
# Required-Start:    scripts-needed
# Required-Stop:     scripts-needed
# Should-Start:      script-that-may-not-be-installed
# Should-Stop:       script-that-may-not-be-installed
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installation
# Description:
#
### END INIT INFO


I am using Debian GNU/Linux Unstable, kernel 2.6.16-2-486

cheers,

Carlos Villegas