On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:02:41 +0200, Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> 
wrote:
> Sorry for the very late reply.

No problem. It looks like we missed this stable point release, but we
can get the next one!

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:53:57PM -0500, micah anderson wrote:
...
> > (note 105 is behavior uncertain)
> 
> Indeed, you are absolutely right, I confirm the above.

Ok, good, I'm glad I'm not insane... or am I?

> With my very limited, only on dependency-based booting-enabled, systems,
> it seems that
>     update-rc.d $foo enable
> counteracts
>     update-rc.d $foo disable
> properly, as long as you don't call "remove" at any point.
> 
> So, removing the
>     update_rc "-f", @resource[:name], "remove"
> line before "enable" should be fine.

This does seem like it might work, although I'm concerned about the
corner cases, and:

> However, I'm not sure how that would interact with systems upgraded from
> lenny. I'll check that and get back to you, hopefully soon.

this as well. Please do get back as soon as you test this.

> FWIW, there's a related discussion at debian-devel these days, see
> <20110304113539.ga10...@upsilon.cc>.

Thanks, I'll have a read.

> > This would also make backporting to lenny a problem because "update-rc.d
> > foo {en,dis}able' would not work right, but this is less of a concern.
> 
> I guess you can document that and change that back, for the limited time
> that lenny would still live.

True, thats not difficult.

micah

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