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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Taking over sysvinit development</div>
  22       <div class="date">22nd July 2009</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>After several years of frustration with the lack of activity from
  24 the existing sysvinit upstream developer, I decided a few weeks ago to
  25 take over the package and become the new upstream.  The number of
  26 patches to track for the Debian package was becoming a burden, and the
  27 lack of synchronization between the distribution made it hard to keep
  28 the package up to date.</p>
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  30 <p>On the new sysvinit team is the SuSe maintainer Dr. Werner Fink,
  31 and my Debian co-maintainer Kel Modderman.  About 10 days ago, I made
  32 a new upstream tarball with version number 2.87dsf (for Debian, SuSe
  33 and Fedora), based on the patches currently in use in these
  34 distributions.  We Debian maintainers plan to move to this tarball as
  35 the new upstream as soon as we find time to do the merge.  Since the
  36 new tarball was created, we agreed with Werner at SuSe to make a new
  37 upstream project at <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/">Savannah</a>, and continue
  38 development there.  The project is registered and currently waiting
  39 for approval by the Savannah administrators, and as soon as it is
  40 approved, we will import the old versions from svn and continue
  41 working on the future release.</p>
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  43 <p>It is a bit ironic that this is done now, when some of the involved
  44 distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.</p>
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