[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#576788: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/README must be updated with boot dependency info

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.87dsf-8.1
Severity: normal

  Hi,

  When upgrading to squeeze (or installing a new squeeze), a dependency based
boot system is used (or at least is tried).
  While this system has many advantage, it is a new one. Most admin does
not have knowledge of it but lots of them will have to deal with:
- pb when upgrading
- bad order due to local particularity in the installed system
- local init scripts to setup
- ...

  Currently, it is very difficult to find a easy entry point with documentation
for local admin about dependency based boot system (ie doc that allows to anser
to the previously cited points).
  I think that, for squeeze, /etc/init.d/README must be updated to, at least,
point to a useful documentation somewhere in /usr/share/doc
(/usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README-dependency-boot-system.txt to be written ?)

  For now, I did not find myself a useful doc about dependency based boot
system. I know I can google and look at the sources, but I would expect that
Debian provides a useful doc for admin when introducing such a big change
in the administration of the machine.

  Regards,
   Vincent


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.28      Debian configuration management sy
ii  insserv                      1.12.0-14   Tool to organize boot sequence usi
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.87dsf-8.1 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  sysv-rc-conf                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
  sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true