I am pleased to report I've updated new beta packages for SysV init, insserv and startpar. This new packages mostly contain bug fixes (summary of changes below).
Assuming the beta testing goes well, I am hoping to publish new stable releases for these three packages around mid-September. Please let me know before then if you encounter any bugs. One note of warning: Due to some changes in the test suites (especially for startpar), the latest version of startpar will not pass tests with older versions of insserv installed on the system. This is because only newer versions of insserv use the "-i" flag to specify the location of the init.d directory and the "-i" flag is used in the startpar test suite. Please note that startpar will still work with older versions of insserv in most production environments, it is just the test suite that will fail some tests that rely on the new insserv feature. Running mixed versions of startpar and insserv in most production environments will still work, assuming the init.d directory is located at /etc/init.d/ - Jesse Changes since the last stable release: SysV init - 2.96-beta ====================== * Added -z command line paramter to pidof which tells pidof to try to find processes in uninterruptable (D) or zombie (Z) states. This can cause pidof to hang, but produces a more complete process list. Closes Savannah bug #56534 * Reformatted init code to make if/while logic more clear. * Cleaned up some output from readbootlog. * Added -e flag to bootlogd. When -e is used, data saved to the boot log file does not have escape characters removed. This means colour and cursor movement codes stay in the log file. The may then look nicer when read with "less -R', but may appear cluttered or out of alignment when viewed with other, plain-text tools. When -e is not used, escape characters are removed/filtered. Closes Debian bug #672361. insserv - 1.21.0-beta ====================== - Fixed typo in insserv.8 manual page. - Make it clear that when --verbose (-v) flag is used, status information is printed to stderr. - Added silent (-q) flag which blocks warning messages to stderr. In this mode insserv only prints fatal error messages. - Fixed typo when assigning directory path when -i is used. Updated testsuite to match fixed directory path when -i is used startpar - 0.64-beta ===================== * Added sys/sysmacros.h header on non-FreeBSD systems to make it possible to use makedev(). * Fixed typos in manual page. Patches provided by Dmitry Bogatov. * Make sure we do not try to use unallocated memory when detecting consoles. * Fixed handing of overriding location of init.d on the command line. * Fixed testsuite script to give better results to tests. Numbered tests so mixed "success" and "failure" messages would be more clear. * Updated testsuite to work with insserv 1.20.0 and newer.
