[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Remaining sysvinit issues and updating the etch version

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Steve Langasek]
> Does this mean you think sysvinit -36 in unstable is not quite ready
> for release, and that we should be looking at t-p-u for a solution
> to bug #330592?  Or should we be considering the unstable version
> for inclusion now?

Hm, right.  I guess I was not too clear.  I will try to be clearer
I've been waiting for comments from my co-maintainers, and no-one have
said anything.  I hope this mean they do not have any objections.

I believe -36 in sid is a lot better than the -20 package in etch, and
that it would be a lot better to support the -36 version in the next
stable release of Debian.

I found a solutions to the most problematic issues (rollback on the
sendsigs/NFS issue to the traditional problematic behaviour instead of
the new and more problematic behavoiur and make async NFS mounting
optional), and believe it solve the important problems in earlier
versions of sysvinit.

There have not been a rush of new bugs reported against sysvinit
recently, and I have fixed almost all the bugs reported since I
started the bug fixing in august.

So I suggest considering -36 for etch now.  It svn repository is
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit/trunk .

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen