Bug#1002012: [pre-approval] bullseye-pu: package sysvinit/2.96-7

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 10:50 +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
>  - Fix #1001795: backport upstream fix for parsing shutdown argument
> '+0' that
>    was released in version 2.98.  Version 3.00-1 is already present
> in sid and
>    bookworm.
>     
>  - Update documentation for shutdown(8) to clarify behaviour when a
> time is
>    specified. This was committed directly to salsa[1] by Tomas
> Popisek with
>    rationale:
> 
>     'Clarify that when called with a `time` shutdown will not exit.
> That's
>     important to know for programs or scripts that call `shutdown ...
> time`
>     because they will never proceed after having called it (unless
> they fork exec
>     or similar of course). Point in case: unattended-upgrades gets
> caught by
>     this.'
> 

Please go ahead; sorry for the delay.

Regards,

Adam