[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#238585: Bug#238585: changing submitter

[Jay Berkenbilt]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

> [Jay Berkenbilt]
>> Do you think it is still relevant with the possibility of moving to
>> a dependency-based init system?
>
> Yes.  I believe it is independent of that move, and welcome a patch.
>
>> I imagine we're too late for Lenny at this point.  Oh well.
>
> So do I, but send a patch and I'll see what we can do. :)

What should I patch relative to?  I have verified that I can read
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit/trunk and have
found sysv-rc under debian/sysv-rc.  I'm thinking the best bet might
be to install a minimal sid on a virtual machine and do my work there,
then make sure the patches apply cleanly against your trunk in svn.
Assuming I actually get to this, I'll send you a patch that you should
hopefully be able to apply directly after verifying its correctness.
I'll also send an explanation of the changes to help you verify it.

I'm technically on "vacation" until June 18.  Realistically, it will
be the following weekend at the earliest before I'd have time to play
with this.  I'd like to do this, but I can't commit to doing it.
There's going to be some stuff going on in my real life over the next
few weeks, and it's unclear at this point whether it's going to mean
I'm going to have more time or less time for this kind of thing.  It
might be just what I need, or my debian work might get squeezed out
for a while.  But I'll give it a shot. :-) A quick perusal of the code
suggests that it should be a pretty localized change.  If it makes it
into Lenny, great; if not, it doesn't matter -- it will eventually
make it in.  Sarge hadn't even been released when I posted the
original suggestion. :-)

--Jay