I've tested the svn version in Debian testing, and it booted just fine. Had to apply a patch for Debia lenny. See other email for the patch.
I note that we have some patches in the Debian package not yet pushed upstream: 10_doc_manuals.dpatch 11_doc_shutdown-c.dpatch 21_ifdown_kfreebsd.dpatch 46_pidof_symlinkman.dpatch 62_init_freebsdterm.dpatch 91_sulogin_lockedpw.dpatch 94_fstab-decode.dpatch 96_shutdown_acctoff.dpatch (Available from svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit/trunk/debian/patches ) Of these, I suspect 11_doc_shutdown-c.dpatch, 46_pidof_symlinkman.dpatch, 94_fstab-decode.dpatch and 96_shutdown_acctoff.dpatch might be useful to include in the new upstream release. What is your view on this? There are also some freebsd fixes. I am not sure if we should include them upstream or not. I assume they work, but have no way to test them. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen