Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.87dsf-2 Severity: wishlist File: /sbin/bootlogd
Please consider splitting out bootlogd into its own package. That package would contain /sbin/bootlogd and the three bootlogd init scripts. This would have several advantages: - Rather than needing /etc/default/bootlogd with its BOOTLOGD_ENABLE variable, you could simply assume that installing the bootlogd package implies you want to use bootlogd. - Users who don't use bootlogd (probably most users, given that bootlogd requires enabling explicitly) would not need to have the package installed. sysvinit-utils and initscripts must both exist on all Debian systems, whereas a split-out bootlogd need not. - bootlogd tries to run as early as possible, and forces other init scripts to run later; thus, its init script ends up running alone. Even if the script ends up doing nothing, this stretches out the depth of the boot dependency tree. Removing the package and its init scripts entirely would solve this. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.85-3 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 2.0.38-1 Security Enhanced Linux library fo sysvinit-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests: pn sash <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
