default be the reverse of the start sequence. It isn't.
<p>Reordering is hard and require cooperation between maintainers of
-all packages involved. Given two packages with two scripts inserted
-with the default settings in Debian:
+all packages involved.
+
+<h2>The ordering problem - an example</h2>
+
+<p>Given two packages with two scripts inserted with the default
+settings in Debian:
<p>Package A: script_a sequence 20 (start and stop)
<br>Package B: script_b sequence 20 (start and stop)
have to change their sequence number too. Only way to discover this
is by a lot of testing, or documenting script dependencies.
-<h2>A ordering solution</h2>
+<h2>An ordering solution</h2>
<p>Let each script document its dependency, and generate sequence
numbers using this dependency information. Example:
<br>script_a start seq 3, stop seq 1
<p>An implementation of this system is the dependency based boot
-sequencing, provided in the insserv package.</p>
+sequencing, provided in the insserv package. Uses format specified in
+Linux Software Base to document dependencies.</p>
+
<h2>LSB headers for insserv</h2>