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.
+ +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 Savannah, 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.
+ +It is a bit ironic that this is done now, when some of the involved +distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.
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