[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#539753: Bug#539753: network-manager: Init script provides wrong name for sequence based boot

[Michael Biebl]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,

Hi Andreas

> to enable sequence based booting with insserv the init file has
> to provide the same name as the start script.  The problem is that

This statement is not correct. In the LSB header you can declare a Provides:
that does not need to match the name of the init script file.

If at all, this "requirement" could be said to be a best practice (which we then
should document).

> gdm is refering to the network-manager and thus fails to load right
> in time because it is not running.

Given the above, the gdm init script could be changed to have a
Should-Start: NetworkManager

which would have the same effect.

I don't know if there are other packages which already depend on the
NetworkManager facility name and would be broken by this change and if it is
safer to change the gdm init script instead.

Cheers,
Michael

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