Bug#767202: pu: package sysvinit/2.88dsf-41+deb7u1: bootlogd log on multiple consoles

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 10/29/2014 05:27 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: pu
> 
> Dear release team,
> 
> I'm opening a bug as suggested by KiBi.
> 
> I would like to close bug #181756, which contains a patch that I forward
> ported to Sid last summer, and uploaded in sysvinit 2.88dsf-53.4. The
> patch is available here (in the bug report):
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=51;filename=allow-multiple-console-output.patch;att=1;bug=181756
> 
> This patch is important because if you use a server, you may want to activate
> serial console boot log. It is also very important for cloud computing. For
> example, with OpenStack, bootlogd must log on both tty0 and ttyS0 to have both
> "nova console-log" and the interactive web terminal to work. Otherwise, it is
> always the last console= argument on the command line that is in use.
> 
> Nobody reported any issue since my upload to Sid on the 24th of August. I also
> tested the patch in Wheezy on a Xen VPS, and using OpenStack on virtual machine
> instances. Both ran without any issue.
> 
> If the release team agree that I add the patch to the Wheezy version of
> bootlogd, then I will prepare a package and send links to both the package
> itself, and the debdiff for pre-approval, before uploading to stable p-u.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts about this,
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)

I know everyone is busy with Jessie's release, however, this fix in
Wheezy is important for me (and others). Could someone from the release
team have a look and let me know if this change is acceptable for an
upload in proposed-updates? Again, I believe that I did *a lot* of tests
(and in fact, I use the patched version every day), so it should be safe.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)