Hello Ben Hutchings. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 01:06:44PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I also planned an NMU to sysvinit, and have just committed my changes > to the git master branch. As it looks like your changes are also > ready, could you merge them to master and then upload?
Thanks for asking but please go ahead without my changes for now. I'll likely start a wider discussion on the init-helper tools given that I'm moving things around which affects essential packages on debian-devel before moving forward. > > Note that sysvinit no longer has any active maintainers (at least, none > that consider themselves so), so don't expect much response from that > side. I've been able to sucker pere into answering some questions on IRC even though he insists on not being a sysvinit authority anymore. For official status today the best info is (the lack of any other followup than) this I think: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-devel/2015-May/008086.html Regards, Andreas Henriksson
