[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#430497: Shutdown (8) possibly to be updated...

[Henk Koster]

It appears from the referenced linux-ata.org site that the problem *may* 
affect Debian's shutdown utility if it has been modified from the upstream 
version. Not doing anything in that case "may have negative effect on the 
lifetime of the disk"....! In my case that would be an expensive laptop HD. 

It seems to me that this bug needs to be handled with greater urgency -- 30 
days have already gone by since it was first reported.

-- 
Henk Koster
"Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes."
Attributed to L.J. Savage