Proposed release goal for Squeeze: Switch to dependency based boot sequencing

[Fielder George Dowding]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
> [Fielder George Dowding]
>> I have a plain Debian installation, lenny,  on this box setup as if I
>> were in Germany complete with a German keyboard. I prepared this box
>> some years ago to study the German language. I have not changed back
>> to English, so it has been fun observing the change in help and error
>> messages from a little German to mostly German.
>
> Very good to hear about your successful insserv test report. :)
>
>> There is some more translation work to do I see.
>
> Heh, right.  I suspect it is better to just remove these messages.
> There are most useful during testing.  In production, I suspect they
> should be removed.
>
>> Yes, this strikes me as a very good move.
>
> At the moment 1.46% of the population got the insserv package
> installed according to popcon.debian.org, and I suspect that somewhere
> between 0.38%(vote) and 1.21%(old) has enabled it.  I suspect the best
> way to get dependency based boot sequencing enabled by default is that
> a lot of users is using it and can report that it work properly. :)
> Because of this, your report is a step in the right direction.
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
> Linux counter user #14
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Actually, Petter, I have just successfully booted this box using the
newly installed insserv package. As they say, "The proof of the
pudding is in the eating".

Cheerio!
-- 
Fielder George Dowding, KL7FHX
dba Iceworm Enterprises
Debian GNU/Linux Lenny
User Number 269482