Replacement Initscripts
Registered by
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
The primary source of tasks in the boot sequence comes from the initscripts package, which are implemented as serial shell scripts within the sysv-rc framework. This specification proposes their replacement with event-based upstart jobs.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Colin Watson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Jeff Bailey
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Accepted for feisty
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Whiteboard
Deferred for feisty, we opted to spend more time getting this right than release something half-right which needed fixing later.
A PPA of alternate packages will be made around the time of the feisty release which people can install for testing, these will go into +1 very early.
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Work Items
Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.