Dependency based boot sequencing release goal completed

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Here is a new status update following the last report in

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00011.html

 

The release goal to prepare all init.d scripts for a dependency based

init.d script system can now be considered complete. 99.8% of all

packages in unstable now have the dependency information (2 packages

missing it), and a similar amount in Lenny contain the dependency

header. I am not sure how to calculate the fraction in Lenny.

 

The initial testing of these dependencies have discovered some bugs in

the headers, leading to incorrect boot or shutdown sequence, refusal

to activate dependency based boot sequencing or rejecting a package

installation. Most of these bugs are fixed, but some remain open in

BTS. More testers are needed to discover problems with currently

untested combination of packages. Please tag all such BTS issues

appropriately to get them to show up on

 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=initscripts-ng-devel ( -at -) lists.alioth.debian.org

 

At the moment, 1% of the debian population got insserv installed. More

testing is needed, to detect the remaining dependency errors.

 

The insserv package in unstable and testing is doing well, and a large

test suite has been written to verify that it is working correctly

before upload. This have made us confident that it is working very

well.

 

Happy hacking,

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Petter Reinholdtsen

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