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+               <title>Taking over sysvinit development</title>
+               <link>../../../Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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+&lt;p&gt;After several years of frustration with the lack of activity from
+the existing sysvinit upstream developer, I decided a few weeks ago to
+take over the package and become the new upstream.  The number of
+patches to track for the Debian package was becoming a burden, and the
+lack of synchronization between the distribution made it hard to keep
+the package up to date.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On the new sysvinit team is the SuSe maintainer Dr. Werner Fink,
+and my Debian co-maintainer Kel Modderman.  About 10 days ago, I made
+a new upstream tarball with version number 2.87dsf (for Debian, SuSe
+and Fedora), based on the patches currently in use in these
+distributions.  We Debian maintainers plan to move to this tarball as
+the new upstream as soon as we find time to do the merge.  Since the
+new tarball was created, we agreed with Werner at SuSe to make a new
+upstream project at &lt;a href=&quot;http://savannah.nongnu.org/&quot;&gt;Savannah&lt;/a&gt;, and continue
+development there.  The project is registered and currently waiting
+for approval by the Savannah administrators, and as soon as it is
+approved, we will import the old versions from svn and continue
+working on the future release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It is a bit ironic that this is done now, when some of the involved
+distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.&lt;/p&gt;
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+               <title>Debian has switched to dependency based boot sequencing</title>
+               <link>../../../Debian_has_switched_to_dependency_based_boot_sequencing.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>
+&lt;p&gt;Since this evening, with the upload of sysvinit version 2.87dsf-2,
+and the upload of insserv version 1.12.0-10 yesterday, Debian unstable
+have been migrated to using dependency based boot sequencing.  This
+conclude work me and others have been doing for the last three days.
+It feels great to see this finally part of the default Debian
+installation.  Now we just need to weed out the last few problems that
+are bound to show up, to get everything ready for Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The next step is migrating /sbin/init from sysvinit to upstart, and
+fixing the more fundamental problem of handing the event based
+non-predictable kernel in the early boot.&lt;/p&gt;
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