Bug#993265: RFS: runit/2.1.2-42 -- system-wide service supervision

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 07:02:49PM +0200, Lorenzo Puliti wrote:
>  * Package name    : runit
>    Version         : 2.1.2-42

>  runit (2.1.2-42) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * Release to unstable
>    * getty-run: add hvc0 service, disabled by default:
>        this is usually needed by Xen hypervisor
>    * Add a default-syslog virtual service:
>        to increase portability, services that log to syslog
>        can depend on this rather than on a specific
>        syslog daemon
>    * shutdown.c:
>        - try to fix FTBFS on Hurd (Closes: #992629)
>        - distinguish between halt and shutdown flags:
>          The -r flag ( as reboot) now only works with shutdown;
>          Add a -f flag to shutdown (skip fsck next boot);
>          Add -F flag to shutdown (force fsck next boot);
>          The -f (as force a shutdown) and -w/--wtmp-only flags now
>           only work with halt.
>          (Closes: #992631)
>        - Add a -n flag to halt, to skip sync() before reboot/poweroff;
>          also, always check for runit.nosync flag file before invoking
>          sync()  (Closes: #992641)
>        - make halt '-f' flag a noop when runit is init. This way runit
>          can use its own code to reboot/poweroff the system; users
>          can still use the long '--force' option to force a shutdown
>          without signaling the init (Closes: #899246)
>    * Update shutdown(8) manpage
>    * Bump Standards Version to 4.6.0, no change required
>    * Update lintian overrides for 'alternative init but not init.d script'

Uploaded.

That "default-syslog" that's consists of a 10min sleep looks strange...


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