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  • source: sysvinit (main)
  • version: 3.18-1
  • maintainer: Debian sysvinit maintainers (DMD)
  • uploaders: Adam Borowski [DMD] – Ian Jackson [DMD] – Benda Xu [DMD] – Vincenzo Nicosia (KatolaZ) [DMD] – Mark Hindley [DMD]
  • arch: all any
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 2.96-7+deb11u1
  • oldstable: 3.06-4
  • old-bpo: 3.08-3~bpo12+2
  • stable: 3.14-4
  • testing: 3.15-6
  • unstable: 3.18-1
versioned links
  • 2.96-7+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.06-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.08-3~bpo12+2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.14-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.15-6: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.18-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • bootlogd (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)
  • initscripts (25 bugs: 0, 3, 22, 0)
  • sysv-rc
  • sysvinit-core (4 bugs: 0, 1, 3, 0)
  • sysvinit-utils (5 bugs: 0, 1, 4, 0)
action needed
6 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 6 bugs, consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2026-03-31 Last update: 2026-04-01 16:00
lintian reports 1 warning normal
Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2026-03-31 Last update: 2026-03-31 21:30
3 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 3 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2026-03-26 02:31
Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2026-04-01 Last update: 2026-04-01 14:00
debian/patches: 4 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 4 debian patches available in version 3.18-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

  • 4 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.
Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-03-31 18:30
testing migrations
  • excuses:
    • Migration status for sysvinit (3.15-6 to 3.18-1): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
    • Issues preventing migration:
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for 2ping/4.5-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for aptitude-robot/1.5.5-1.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for at/3.2.5-2.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for backuppc/4.4.0-11: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bacula/15.0.3-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for c-icap/1:0.5.10-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cups/2.4.16-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for curvedns/0.87-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dnscrypt-proxy/2.1.15+ds1-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dnsproxy/1.17+git20211129.22329c4-6: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for docker.io/28.5.2+dfsg3-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dpdk/25.11-2: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: Pass, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dracut/110-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fcoe-utils/1.0.34-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fwlogwatch/1.4-6: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for glances/4.5.2+dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for groonga/16.0.0+dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for haproxy/3.2.15-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for hippotat/1.3.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for icinga2/2.15.2-2: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for inetutils/2:2.7-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for init-system-helpers/1.69: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for kdump-tools/1:1.10.7: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libguestfs/1:1.58.1-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libvirt/12.0.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mandos/1.8.19-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mosquitto/2.0.22-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mumble/1.5.857-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for munin/2.0.76-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openntpd/1:6.2p3-4.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openssh: ppc64el: Test triggered, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for osmo-ggsn/1.13.0-2: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for postfix-gld/1.7-11: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for postgresql-common/290: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pound/4.17-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for radicale/3.6.1+ds-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for rng-tools-debian/2.6: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for rrdtool/1.9.0-2.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for runit/2.3.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sitesummary/0.1.61: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for strongswan/6.0.5-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for supervisor/4.3.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for syslog-ng/4.8.1-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for systemd/260.1-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for tgt/1:1.0.85-1.3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for tor/0.4.9.6-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for uftp/4.10.2-1.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for unattended-upgrades/2.12+nmu1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for userv/1.2.3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for vsftpd/3.0.5-0.5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ziproxy/3.3.2-8: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Too young, only 1 of 5 days old
    • Additional info (not blocking):
    • ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/s/sysvinit.html
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on i386
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on ppc64el
    • Not considered
news
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  • [2026-03-31] Accepted sysvinit 3.18-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-11-21] sysvinit 3.15-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-11-16] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-6 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-10-26] sysvinit 3.15-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-10-21] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-5 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-10-14] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-4 (source) into experimental (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-10-08] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-3 (source) into experimental (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-09-23] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-2 (source) into experimental (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-09-09] Accepted sysvinit 3.15-1 (source) into experimental (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-03-17] sysvinit 3.14-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-11] Accepted sysvinit 3.14-4 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-03-05] sysvinit 3.14-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-02-24] Accepted sysvinit 3.14-3 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-02-18] Accepted sysvinit 3.14-2 (source) into experimental (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-02-16] sysvinit 3.14-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-02-10] Accepted sysvinit 3.14-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2025-01-12] sysvinit 3.13-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-01-07] Accepted sysvinit 3.13-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-10-28] sysvinit 3.11-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-10-23] Accepted sysvinit 3.11-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-10-21] sysvinit 3.10-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-10-15] Accepted sysvinit 3.10-3 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-09-17] sysvinit 3.10-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-11] Accepted sysvinit 3.10-2 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-08-13] sysvinit 3.10-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-08-06] Accepted sysvinit 3.10-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-06-21] sysvinit 3.09-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-06-16] Accepted sysvinit 3.09-2 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
  • [2024-04-27] sysvinit 3.09-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-04-17] Accepted sysvinit 3.09-1 (source) into unstable (Mark Hindley)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 33 38
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 6
  • M&W: 27 32
  • F&P: 0
  • patch: 6
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