Idea for migrating packages away from static boot sequence numbers

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> > I like the idea.  But it has to do the right thing when the package
> > gets installed in a non-dependency-based system if it is going to be
> > implemented before dependency-based becomes mandatory.
> 
> Yes, dependency-based boot ordering is going to become mandatory, and
> that is the premise for this idea.  In Squeeze it will be possible to
> keep the old boot ordering for systems upgraded from Lenny.  We should
> drop support for it in Squeeze+1 and make it clear that it is no
> longer optional to switch to dependency based boot sequencing.
> 
> The alternative is to force all package maintainers to guess on
> sequence numbers, and that do not make sense.
> 
> > And yes, I am *all* for dependency-based ordering to be mandatory.
> 
> Good.  Lets drop support for the legacy boot ordering when Squeeze is
> released.

Then, let's wait for Squeeze to be released before we add this feature.

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