[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Hard Drive Shutdown Issues

[Francis Russell]

Hi,

apologies for emailing this list, but I believe I'm one among many 
Debian users becoming increasing frustrated at the lack of any progress
with updated packages to handle the recent shutdown changes in the Linux 
  kernel.

All DBTS activities regarding this bug (#426224, #430497, #436703) seem 
to have almost stopped, despite the bug's priority and repeated comments 
  from Debian users. In particular, I there is a link to the Novell bug 
tracking system where Werner Fink has uploaded more substantial efforts 
to fix this bug (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229210). In 
particular, I believe this handles the cases that the committed changes 
to /etc/init.d/halt does not where different hard disks require 
different behavior.

Will a new sysvinit be uploaded soon, or at least some feedback on the 
status of these issues?

Many thanks,

Francis Russell