[Splashy-devel] Bug#410662: inconsistent/misleading usage of splash boot parameter and /e/d/splashy config file

[Michael Biebl]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.0
Severity: normal

There are currently two ways to configure if splashy should be run or
not: the absence/presence of the splash boot parameter and ENABLE=(0|1) in
/etc/default/splashy.
It seems though, that the "splash" boot parameter only has influence on
the initramfs part of splashy, the /etc/init.d/splashy script does not
evaluate this parameter and vice versa (the initramfs script only
evaluates the boot parameter but not ENABLE).
I find the usage of ENABLE in /etc/default/splashy misleading and
superfluous and would recommend to only use the splash boot parameter
consistently in the initramfs and init script.
E.g. it is quite strange if you remove splash from the boot prompt and
the initramfs does not start but the init script does (ENABLE=1).
Or if you set ENABLE=0, which disables the init script but not the
initramfs.
Again, I think the ENABLE parameter is not needed and only causes
confusion. Using the splash boot parameter solely is more flexibe (than
ENABLE) and consistent.

Cheers,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.6-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1                   4.19-1       File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy0                 0.3.0        Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages splashy recommends:
ii  lsb                           3.1-23     Linux Standard Base 3.1 support pa
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

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