[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#655131: sysvinit: Please consider documenting the changed behaviour of inittab

[Brian Potkin]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-18
Severity: wishlist


Has there ever been a time when a Debian system did not leave boot
messages on the screen before displaying the login prompt? With the
present getty from util-linux this no longer happens; clearing the
screen before presenting the prompt is now the default.

I suppose you could provide an inittab with the --noclear option to
getty in it but surely, at the least, a mention of the change in the
traditional behaviour in NEWS.Debian is worth a line or two?




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-18
ii  libc6           2.13-24
ii  libselinux1     2.1.0-4
ii  libsepol1       2.1.0-1.2
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-18
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-18

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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