Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

[Posted August 22, 2012 by jake]

From:		XU Benda <heroxbd-AT-gmail.com>
To:		Debian Bug Tracking System <submit-AT-bugs.debian.org>
Subject:		Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host
Date:		Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:03:07 +0900
Message-ID:		<20120809130307.7498.64495.reportbug__33807.3624218397$1344517582$gmane$org@localhost>

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: XU Benda <heroxbd@gentoo.org>

* Package name    : openrc
  Version         : 0.10.5
  Upstream Author : Gentoo OpenRC Team <openrc@gentoo.org>
* URL             : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/openrc/
* License         : 2 clause BSD
  Programming Lang: C, shell script
  Description     : alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a
host

OpenRC is a dependency based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally
/sbin/init. 
It is not a replacement for /sbin/init, but an alternative to /etc/init.d/rc from sysv-rc. OpenRC
understands
LSB headers, providing a smooth way to switch back and forth with sysv-rc.