On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:56:25AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > This essentially is a reintroduction of the package "runit-run", which > was added to Debian end of 2002, and removed on request of the release > team end of 2010, with the package name changed. Since then, a backward > compatibility feature for running sysv rc scripts was added, ideally to > be replaced by runit service directories eventually. > I don't think that's entirely accurate - it was removed from unstable at your own request, and then removed from testing due to it no longer being present in unstable. The issue under contention was #562945 - which I confirmed would be an RC bug, and thus not suitable for release. This doesn't mean it couldn't belong in Debian at all. It's good to see that runit will now allow a system to boot (and actually run init scripts), which is great to see. Neil --
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