As discussed in a parallel thread, this patchset is for renaming 'dmd' service to 'root' service (which also provides 'shepherd' name).
Actually, patches 1, 2 and 4 are not related, I just made some changes that I noticed and I believe should be made :-) Patches: [PATCH 1/5] service: Rename 'services' variable to '%services'. [PATCH 2/5] service: Improve style of 'for-each-service'. [PATCH 3/5] service: 'service-list' returns unique services. Without this change, if the root service provides 2 names, 'herd status' would display: Started: (root root) Stopped: () [PATCH 4/5] service: Add docstring to 'lookup-services'. [PATCH 5/5] Rename 'dmd' service to 'root'.