A fresh start (request for comments)

[Jesse Smith]

> I don't think so. Any change to the source would happen in a debian
> patch and there are no new debian patches in the work done by Dmitry
> (or me, for that matter). Most of the changes are to the debian
> package (update of Standard version, VCS link, licence, control,
> overrides, etc.).
> 
> And as I said, we need just two of the previous set since the other
> ones had been incorporated upstream.
> 
> Just have a look at:
> 
>   https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sysvinit/blob/wip/debian/2.91/debian/patches/series
> 
> and at the two files listed in there inside:
> 
>   https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sysvinit/tree/wip/debian/2.91/debian/patches


I looked at the two remaining patches and they both appear to be fairly
Debian specific, so I'll leave them for the moment.

Something we might want to address is that the nologin patch updates
SysV's shutdown command (and manual page) to change the path of
/etc/nologin to /run/nologin. This makes sense since /run is a better
place for dynamic files.

However, the manual page for the login command still says login checks
/etc/nologin to see if users are blocked from signing in. There is no
mention of /run/login in the manual page.

This is a potential problem as it looks like login and shutdown are not
working in the same directory.

This is either a bug in the login(1) manual page or the shutdown command
should not be patched since it needs to place the nologin file where
login will look for it.

Jesse