[Goswin von Brederlow]
> Only when the scripts do have the right dependencies. And they not
> always do.

Of course.  And buggy packages will give their users problems which
hopefully will be reported and fixed by its maintainer.

> For example chrony depends only on $local_fs instead of $remote_fs
> and could be scheduled in parallel with sendsigs.

I see #590888 is reported (thought its suggestion regarding networking
should probably be changed to $network), so this seem to work.

> People do get the depends wrong and it would be nice to have an
> extra level of protection for sendsigs.

This is another way to say that the boot system should hide bugs in
packages, and I believe this to be a bad idea.

> The reason why I looked into this is that with ubuntus half
> conversion to upstart sendsigs does run in parallel with other
> scripts and happily kills them. And I wondered how well Debian is
> protected from that.

Right.  Suspect we will have similar problems that need to be
fixed. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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