[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#376925: initramfs-tools: init should say 'Will now load...'!

[curt manucredo (hansycm)]

maximilian attems wrote:
> reassign 376925 initscripts
> retitle 376925 init shouldn't use first person
> stop
restart
retitle 376925 init-script in initramfs-tools should say 'Will now 
load...' not 'I will now load...' nor 'Loading, please wait :-)
stop

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376925

hi maximilian,

> On Sat, 08 Jul 2006, curt manucredo (hansycm) wrote:
> <snipp confusing first report> 
>>> you might want to read chapter 6.5 from the developers reference
>>> -> 
>>> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-config-mgmt
>>>
>>> (6.5.2.5) the computer is not a person.
>> Thank you for kindly pointing at this! But then, ...
>>
>>> "Loading, please wait..." pretty much describes politely what's going on,
>>> the os is _loading_.
>> ...when swap gets mounted and local file-systems, it says: 'Will now 
>> activate swap' and 'Will now mount local file-systems'.
>> this was my intention for this whishlist-bug! --> '...not...very round...'
> 
> well agreed, although once init is called that can no longer happen in
> initramfs-tools. Please better research next time the corresponding
> package. "Will now" strings are abundant in initscripts as 
> grep "Will now" -r /etc/init.d/ | egrep 'log_'
> easily shows in mountall.sh, checkroot.sh
> and once init is called the initramfs-tools business is finished ;)
> 
i don't want to change /etc/init.d/*
as i already said: it is not very round when it says 'Loading, please 
wait...'. and when it says 'will now load' it does not mean that it says 
'I will now load'. it would be the same as it would say 'I am loading, 
please wait', but it does not. it says 'Loading, please wait...' and i 
even don't want to wait. why does a computer tell me to wait? :-) i just 
want to do other things while it loads!
>  
> hmm no patch yet for this issue although it should be trivial to
> construct.

egh! there is one. since i cc'ed it to curiosa i don't feel bad about it 
to send you a patch applying it with 'patch -p0' to the unpacked 
initramfs-tools-0.67.tar.gz found in the repository! But i believe 
changing the init-script-file in initramfs-tools-0.67.tar.gz would be 
faster! however!
> 
> best regards
>  
sorry for not cc!
thanks for everything

yours curt

-- 
greetings from austria

well, though i think i can't fix that problem, but i believe i can make 
a workaround!
*********************
curt manucredo
hansycm at a1.net

i can not sit all the time in front of this stupid thing!

-- a proud debian-user and wannabe-developer
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--- init-old	2006-06-21 23:44:24.000000000 +0200
+++ init	2006-07-10 23:20:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-echo "Loading, please wait..."
+echo "Will now load..."
 
 mkdir /sys
 mkdir /proc