[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#602021: initscripts: [PATCH] bootlogs -- Improve error message handling

[Jari Aalto]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-12
Severity: wishlist


Here is small patch to improve error message handling.

- Display "$0" to show who is printing the message
- Generic and reusable warn(), die()

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   3.4.1      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                         2.17.2-3.3 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                       2.88dsf-12 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-12 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-2  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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