Dear d1rs, TL;DR: ======
we need help in testing any regression with a new version of sysvinit (2.91-1+devuan1) that we have put in Devuan experimental http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged experimental main So if you are on ceres or beowulf, please try it out and report any regression. Longer version: =============== As some of you might know, there was a thread on debian-devel about two weeks ago in which it was proposed to remove sysvinit from the Debian repo. The main reason is that the package has been in RFA (Request For Adoption) since a couple of years ago. At that point, some Devuan developers stepped up and offered to help maintaining sysvinit in Debian, since we would have to maintain it anyway in Devuan if it gets dropped from Debian. Several DDs welcomed the offer (and among them Ian Jackson himself), and volunteered to sponsor our builds. In the meanwhile, Ian Jackson created a debian-init-divesity mailing list, and we contacted the last uploaders and the new upstream developer/maintainer (Jesse Smith, Distrowatch) to coordinate the efforts. We got a very good response from all the people involved, and the collaboration is proceeding very well. debian-init-divesity is a welcoming place (at starking difference to debian-devel, I must say), and most of the participants there have already been using some of the additional packages offered by Devuan, including elogind and eudev. We are now working all together on an upload of a new version of sysvinit in Debian experimental, merged with the latest upstream version from Jesse, which also solves some of the outstanding bugs in the Debian packages. Today I built a preliminary version of sysvinit-2.91 for Devuan experimental (2.91-1+devuan1), to be used for extensive testing. The package is relatively stable, but we need to test it as widely as possible to pinpoint any regression. So if you have a Devuan Beowulf or Ceres installation to spare, which could do some real work (like installing/activating different services, moving stuff around the runlevels, trying different options of boot/reboot, etc), then your help would be very useful at this point. You just need to add Devuan experimental repos to your sources.list: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged experimental main and then apt-get install -t experimental sysvinit sysvinit-core sysv-rc sysvinit-utils initscripts bootlogd Please report any bug to bugs.devuan.org. We will triage them and possibly forward upstream as needed (or solve them and merge the patch upstream directly). There will probably be several updates in the next few days anyway. Thanks for your collaboration. KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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