Attached is the patch i used against runit 2.1.1-6 for NMUing #603827 (uploaded just now on 2010-12-26).
Thanks, Jonathan Nieder for the diagnosis and the fix.
Regards,
--dkg
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b0a6f1f..06f185c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+runit (2.1.1-6.1) local; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/runit.config: skip preconfiguration if ps is not
+ installed.
+ * debian/control: Depends: procps (closes: #603827).
+
+ -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:43:41 -0600
+
runit (2.1.1-6) unstable; urgency=high
* debian/rules: don't set -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on sparc (fixes
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 524f333..2098d2d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.0.1
Package: runit
Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Depends: procps, ${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: fgetty
Suggests: runit-run, socklog-run
Description: system-wide service supervision
diff --git a/debian/runit.config b/debian/runit.config
index 86ae985..f23d62d 100644
--- a/debian/runit.config
+++ b/debian/runit.config
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ if test "$1" = configure && test -n "$2" &&
exit 0
fi
-if `ps -p 1 >/dev/null`; then
- db_input low runit/signalinit || :
-else
- db_input high runit/signalinit || :
+if which ps >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ if ps -p 1 >/dev/null; then
+ db_input low runit/signalinit || :
+ else
+ db_input high runit/signalinit || :
+ fi
+ db_go || :
fi
-db_go || :
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