Some progress on Debian bugs

[Jesse Smith]

I have been going through the Debian bug reports for SysV init, starting
from the top of the list. So far it looks like a lot of the problems
were old packaging/dependency issues. In some cases there was obviously
a problem, but some doubt as to where things were going wrong.

I have been updating upstream documentation and applying fixes were
necessary. It looks like most of these bugs can be closed and a few
probably just need minor tweaks to the sysvinit package.

Here is a list of Debian bugs I have looked at so far, divided into ones
I think can be closed and ones which need further investigation:

Can close:

375274 (fixed)
426373 (not a sysvinit bug)
525141 (can probably close as upstart isn't used anymore)
438529 (probably not a bug, working as documented)
614893 (fixed)
890041 (looks like this patch was already applied upstream)
361935 (addressed in documentation)
447272 (can close. Does not appear to be a sysvinit bug but some other
program          
             changing the named pipe)
501351 (seems to be a kernel bug rather than init)
515595 (appears to be fixed in sysvinit 2.91)
706676 (appears to be a LXC bug that has been fixed by a patch)
710747 (bug was refiled against another daemon)

May require further investigation:

546245 (probably a packaging install script issue?)
766120 (packaging issue)
825975 (this is a packaging issue rather than an upstream issue)
727022 (I think this is a shell script issue rather than an upstream
coding problem)
911044 (I think this is a packaging dependency that needs to be updated)
435287 (I believe this is a Debian packaging update)

586709 (This is a valid bug, but the issue is in Debian's
/etc/init.d/halt script          
         rather than the upstream code. I have updated the bug report
with the results of my tests. Basically it looks like 
         Debian init.d scripts are working properly, it just is not what
the user wants. They want to pass in command line  
         arguments, which doesn't work.)
        

I will report further as I find more bugs that can be closed.

- Jesse