After going through the current range of Debian startpar issue reports, I have decided to go ahead with a startpar beta. I thought there would be more work there, but it turns out the effort to address the handful of bugs and do the porting work I wanted to accomplish went quickly.
The new startpar beta is version 0.61-beta. The list of changes is modest and mostly improves documentation. This beta also includes inital support for building and running on FreeBSD. Here is the changelog: * Applied signal patch from Petter Heinholdtsen which should avoid masking SIGINT to services. Addresses Debian bug #679630 * Applied patch from Francis Russell which should greatly speed up make-style dependency checking in startpar (Fracis's tests suggest patch causes just 0.25% number of loop/dependency checks compared to original.) This should close Debian bugs which report startpar is bailing out when checking dependencies. Addresses Debian bugs #609959 and #696359. * Documented -f flag. Should address Debian bug #763703. * Documented -e flag. * Made minor source adjustments so that startpar will compile and run on FreeBSD. The new beta can be found here: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/ Please report new issues to the mailing list: https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=sysvinit - Jesse
