Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-15 Severity: wishlist Ubuntu has recently split several programmes from sysvinit into a separate binary package (same source), called sysvutils. The reason was upstart, which is designed to eventually replace sysvinit.
http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.html http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart2.html https://launchpad.net/products/upstart I have uploaded upstart to Debian experimental, but it's starting to become a real maintenance headache with all the divergance. Would you please consider taking Ubuntu's lead and also providing a separate package sysvutils? http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/source/sysvinit Here's the list of programmes they moved to sysvutils (along with their manpages): -rwxr-xr-x root/root 12172 2006-08-31 22:35 ./usr/bin/last -rwxr-xr-x root/root 4208 2006-08-31 22:35 ./usr/bin/mesg -rwxr-xr-x root/root 10260 2006-08-31 22:35 ./sbin/killall5 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-08-31 22:35 ./usr/bin/lastb -> last lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-08-31 22:35 ./bin/pidof -> ../sbin/killall5 sysvinit then depends on this package. upstart does too, and it provides the following binaries itself: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 52768 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/init -rwxr-xr-x root/root 26528 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/initctl -rwxr-xr-x root/root 26528 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/start -rwxr-xr-x root/root 24960 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/reboot -rwxr-xr-x root/root 31204 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/shutdown -rwxr-xr-x root/root 39 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/sulogin lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/stop -> start lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/status -> start lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/halt -> reboot lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-09-02 03:27 ./sbin/poweroff -> reboot -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-15 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.999.2-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30.26-2 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 1.12.24-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-15 System-V-like runlevel change mech sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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