Bug#827090: RFS: runit/2.1.2-4 ITP

[Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "runit"

* Package name    : runit
  Version         : 2.1.2-4
  Upstream Author : Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
* Url             : http://smarden.org/runit/
* Licenses        : BSD-3-clause
  Section         : admin

It builds those binary packages:

    runit -- system-wide service supervision
    runit-systemd -- system-wide service supervision (systemd integration)
    getty-run -- runscripts to supervise getty processes
    runit-init -- system-wide service supervision (as init system)

To access futher information about this package, visit the following URL:

    http://mentors.debian.net/package/runit

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

    http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/runit/runit_2.1.2-4.dsc

Alternatively, you can access package debian/ directory via git from URL:

    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/kaction-guest/runit.git

More information about runit can be obtained from http://smarden.org/runit/

Changes since last upload:

  * New maintainer
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.8 (no changes needed)
  * Write watch file
  * Change source format from implicit `1.0' to explicit `3.0(quilt)'.
      - patches from debian/patches are applied automatically
      - `dpkg-buildpackage' no longer complains about files under
        `debian/.git'.
  * Convert patches to quilt format.
      - Remove manual patches application
      - Rename `debian/diff' to `debian/patches'
      - Generate `patches/series' file
  * Use makefile snippets provided by `dpkg' over manual assignments.
  * Convert 'debian/copyright' to dep5 format
  * Convert packaging to debhelper
  * New binary package 'runit-init', that provides /sbin/init replacement
    out-of-box. This package have reduced priority 'extra', since it
    conflicts with other initialization systems.
  * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields into 'debian/control'
  * Patch '${RUNIT}/etc/2' and install it instead of providing separate
    version as 'debian/2'
  * Remove unused 'examples/start-stop-daemon' script.
  * Utilize 'dh_bash-completion' to install bash completion snippet
  * Utilitze 'dh_systemd' to install systemd service file into new binary
    package 'runit-systemd'.
  * Delete runsvdir-start symbolic link. Note is left in NEWS file
  * Rename runit.NEWS.Debian to runit.NEWS to be installed by debhelper
  * Remove scripting in runit's maintainer scripts to adjust /etc/inittab.
    It will be provided as separate package.
  * Make buildsystem respect dpkg-buildflags.
  * Enable hardening
  * Register documentation with doc-base (Policy 9.10)
  * Move communication files under /run to work with read-only /etc
  * Move getty runscripts into separate binary package
  * Emulalate sysv runlevel 5 by default.

Regards,
  Dmitry Bogatov