Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
I discussed this briefly with Neil at DebConf, and he seemed to think it would be ok; if you disagree, it's his fault. ;) The version of upstart currently in testing is ancient. Getting it updated has been blocked on prerequisite changes in other packages of which I am not the maintainer (e.g. plymouth), so while I was fully intending to have this in before freeze, that clearly didn't happen. Sorry about that. The pieces have now come together to the point that it seems worth filing an unblock request with the details. There are patches pending to ifupdown and udev to add necessary upstart integration for the core events needed for an event-based boot: http://bugs.debian.org/679549 http://bugs.debian.org/686378 I have tested these patches to confirm that they don't cause regressions when booting with sysvinit. In addition, I have a small patch to sysvinit, needed to allow the umountnfs.sh script to emit an event to upstart (when upstart is present). I'll hold off on committing this to sysvinit trunk until the other sysvinit RC bug has been dealt with (bug #672959; unblock request, bug #685278). Once these three changes are available in unstable, I have a package of upstart 1.5 that's ready to be uploaded. It introduces new versioned dependencies on the above, so it doesn't make sense to upload it until the prerequisites are done. The package is available for inspection at: https://code.launchpad.net/~vorlon/debian/sid/upstart/debian but a debdiff is not really useful to review here. Finally, mountall 2.39 in unstable is a new package (the one that was blocked on plymouth). It's a dependency of upstart so mostly not useful on its own, so I haven't requested an unblock before now; but it will need to go into testing for upstart to be updated. Provisional release team approval of the ifupdown/udev changes in particular could be helpful, as the maintainers may be wary of uploading these changes if they may not get into wheezy. unblock upstart/1.5-1 unblock mountall/2.39 upstart ifupdown/0.7.3 upstart udev/175-8 upstart sysvinit/2.88dsf-33 Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vor...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120831200248.710.62287.report...@borges.dodds.net