Some progress on Debian bugs

[Benda Xu]

Hi Jesse,

Jesse Smith <jsmith at resonatingmedia.com> writes:

> 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.

Thank you so much for your effort!  If you remember the usage of the
Debian Bug Tracking System, you could directly operate on the bugs.
Also, if you like I can operate on the bugs on your behalf.

> 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)
> 515595 (appears to be fixed in sysvinit 2.91)
> 706676 (appears to be a LXC bug that has been fixed by a patch)

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing

> 501351 (seems to be a kernel bug rather than init)
> 710747 (bug was refiled against another daemon)

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#reassign

> 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.

Thanks, understood.

Yours,
Benda