Hi Adam, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes:
> The popcon for openrc is 83, which, assuming that 10% of users run popcon > (a wild-ass guess) means 830 users. I have no idea what part of this is > unstable, but as openrc in Debian is quite experimental, I guess quite a > bunch of such users are affected. > > The breakage is pretty severe -- it does match the description of "critical" > after all. Every affected user would have to research the fix and apply > it manually. Thus, I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this bug, > especially that the fix is easy. Okay, I will take this lesson. Thank you for your help! >> That said, I understand theoretically your NMU is the correctly way to >> go. So if you intend to do so, consider this email as an ack to NMU >> from the maintainer team. > > I'll upload it then. Great! It is in Sid now. >> One thing to notice is that we are tracking the package at >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openrc/openrc.git >> >> Would you mind if I ask you to prepare a commit to the master >> corresponding to the NMU? > > Of course. I don't have push rights to that repository, so two commits are > attached to this mail (one for the fix, one for changelog). Applied and pushed. You could apply at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/openrc to get push rights. >> BTW, if you are interested in OpenRC, you are welcomed to join the >> maintenance team. > > I'm afraid I don't really know inner workings of openrc, I use it on only > one machine (which happens to be my main desktop, but still...). Everywhere > else I'm on sysv-rc. Ah-ha. Me too, desktops, laptops or newly installed servers (those I could access the consoles). > This said, keeping openrc viable seems important for resisting > systemd-ization of Debian so I probably should help in _some_ way. Agreed. >> 1. 0.20.4-1 was uploaded in a hurry to keep itself in testing. The pts >> system lied and we did not make it. divert should not have existed in >> OpenRC. > > It can be removed in some time, after the affected systems are fixed. Okay. Also I would like to thank Andreas for pointing this out. Yours, Benda
