I was pointed to the SRU wiki; as per that process, here is my justification for an update to lucid, point by point:
1. It has been been fixed since maverick. 2.1. Can cause upstart jobs to get killed when omitted - this can have a serious impact, as mentioned in Comment #5. 2.2. This issue was addressed in 2.87dsf-4ubuntu18, as shipped in maverick. 2.3. The patch from 2.87dsf-4ubuntu18 can be directly used, as mentioned in Comment #6. 2.4. TEST CASE: call killall5 w/ > 16 -o <pid> options 2.5. Regression severity is mitigated by the fact that this fix is localized to a single command that can be easily tested, and it has been shipping in Ubuntu maverick and Debian squeeze without any proven regressions. #607013 did turn up in my investigation for regressions as a killall5 crash in maverick, but note that it is running the lucid version of sysvinit-utils. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/634460 Title: killall5 fails on more than 16 "-o <pid>" parameters -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
