[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#494959: pulseaudio: Please remove stop links from rc0 and rc6

[CJ van den Berg]

Hi James,

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:54:45PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> For daemons that do not require clean shutdown to perform their
> operation it is possible to not explicitly stop the daemon in
> runlevels 0 and 6, and let sendsigs take care of stopping the
> daemon.
> 
> This has been used in Ubuntu for a while to speed up the shutdown
> process. The policy has recently been changed to make it compatible
> with Debian, and so I am now forwarding you the patch that can
> help to bring these benefits in to Debian.
> 
> Please consider applying the attached patch.

I don’t think this makes sense for pulseaudio for two reasons:

1. PulseAudio *does* store state on shutdown (per stream volume levels).

2. The pulseaudio init.d script is *not* used in any default install
configuration. It is only used when explicitly enabled by the user.

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CJ van den Berg

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