Bug#544228: insserv: undetermined behaviour when there's x-start-before on a virtual facility the script belongs to

[Jesse Smith]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 08:10:55 +0000 Mark Hindley wrote:
 > Control: tags -1 upstream
 >
 > Jesse,
 >
 > I have just tried this with insserv 1.26.0 and the self-referential 
virtual
 > facility appears to be silently ignored. Is that the intended 
behaviour? If so,
 > is it documented anywhere (I can't immediately see it).
 >


I want to make sure I understand the issue here. The original report is 
basically saying that rsyslog is set to start _before_ $syslog. However, 
$syslog is a virtual group which contains rsyslog. So the header is 
weird because it's trying to start a service before a group it is a part of.

Which is an odd declaration, but I don't see how it is a bug. Is there 
any reason a script included in a group could not or should not be 
started before before the rest of the items in that group? I agree it is 
a weird way to write a script header, but I'm not seeing how it causes a 
problem.

Unless there is a clear situation where this LSD header is considered 
both valid and insserv's behaviour causes an error, I think silently 
accepting it makes sense.
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