[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#825937: Bug#825937: sysvinit-utils: Please drop startpar dependency

[Martin Pitt]

Steve Langasek [2016-06-03 10:41 -0700]:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 12:12:43PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > In Ubuntu we never supported startpar (it's incompatible with upstart)
> 
> It's not incompatible with upstart; this was implemented years ago.

startpar doesn't work with upstart "task" jobs. I don't remember the
details any more, but we had to disable it in
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/2.88dsf-41ubuntu15
as it caused boot lockups.

Anyway, the message to take here was "not installing startpar doesn't
cause any apparent problems".

Martin

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