[PKG-OpenRC-Debian] Bug#817006: Bug#817006: ack to NMU

[Benda Xu]

Hi Adam,

Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> writes:

> The popcon for openrc is 83, which, assuming that 10% of users run popcon
> (a wild-ass guess) means 830 users.  I have no idea what part of this is
> unstable, but as openrc in Debian is quite experimental, I guess quite a
> bunch of such users are affected.
>
> The breakage is pretty severe -- it does match the description of "critical"
> after all.  Every affected user would have to research the fix and apply
> it manually.  Thus, I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this bug,
> especially that the fix is easy.

Okay, I will take this lesson. Thank you for your help!

>> That said, I understand theoretically your NMU is the correctly way to
>> go.  So if you intend to do so, consider this email as an ack to NMU
>> from the maintainer team.
>
> I'll upload it then.

Great!  It is in Sid now.

>> One thing to notice is that we are tracking the package at
>> 
>>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openrc/openrc.git
>> 
>> Would you mind if I ask you to prepare a commit to the master
>> corresponding to the NMU?
>
> Of course.  I don't have push rights to that repository, so two commits are
> attached to this mail (one for the fix, one for changelog).

Applied and pushed.

You could apply at

    https://alioth.debian.org/projects/openrc

to get push rights.

>> BTW, if you are interested in OpenRC, you are welcomed to join the
>> maintenance team.
>
> I'm afraid I don't really know inner workings of openrc, I use it on only
> one machine (which happens to be my main desktop, but still...).  Everywhere
> else I'm on sysv-rc.

Ah-ha. Me too, desktops, laptops or newly installed servers (those I
could access the consoles).

> This said, keeping openrc viable seems important for resisting
> systemd-ization of Debian so I probably should help in _some_ way.

Agreed.

>> 1. 0.20.4-1 was uploaded in a hurry to keep itself in testing.  The pts
>> system lied and we did not make it.  divert should not have existed in
>> OpenRC.
>
> It can be removed in some time, after the affected systems are fixed.

Okay.


Also I would like to thank Andreas for pointing this out.

Yours,
Benda