[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] sysvinit 2.86.ds1-36 in etch?

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Santiago Vila]
> > So: Is it the plan to ask release managers to allow 2.86.ds1-36 in
> > etch?
> 
> Well, I want to, but have been reluctant to move forward without input
> from the other sysvinit maintainers.  I would rather maintain the
> version currently in sid as part of the next stable Debian release, as
> I believe it is the best sysvinit release ever. :)
> 
> Did you test version 2.86.ds1-36 in etch?  Did it work well for you?

AFAIK, nothing did break for me, if that's what you ask, but I'm just
one user and have not performed extensive tests.

The particular change that needs to propagate to etch is this one:

sysvinit (2.86.ds1-28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop the 'noexec' flag from the /dev/shm/ mount point until etch
    is released, to avoid breaking dosemu and user-mode-linux.  It will
    be reintroduced after etch is released.  This is related to
    bugs #386945 and #386368.

Either 2.86.ds1-36 is allowed in etch, or such fix should be uploaded
for etch-proposed-updates.