[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Transition of initscripts to new order / sequence number

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:07:16PM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Saturday 04 April 2009, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 March 2009 00:35:06 Jan Wagner wrote:
> > > while thinking about how to solve #508189, where I need to change the
> > > position of the initscript in bootorder, I thought it would not
> > > sufficient to change only the call of dh_installinit in the rules file.
> > An update-rc.d interface for this was proposed here [0]. An analogous
> > solution would need to be provided for dependency based boot (insserv
> > diverts update-rc.d) and any other boot system in Debian which diverts
> > update-rc.d.
> 
> hmm .. doesn't looks like this is available for now and all other statements 
> seems not to lead me to a short-/midterm solution ... so what should I do 
> with the bugreport?

When I had a similar issue with nbd-client, I just changed the call to
update-rc.d, and added an entry to NEWS.Debian documenting what the user
would need to do to transition to the new setup.

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