Package: startpar
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

starpar-bridge upstart job, during boot, generates "starting/stopping
startpar bridge..." messages for every upstart job started or
stopped. It's annoying and quite useless spam. Thus in Ubuntu, I have
applied a change to comment out the upstart job description stanza and
thus silence those boot messages from getting displayed via
plymouth-upstart-bridge. Please consider applying attached patch.

>From 10d3714669dcc4cac5bf0424fe743f8cda1dd077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:07:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Comment out description from the startpar upstart job, such
 that plymouth-upstart-bridge does not spam boot messages with
 "Starting/Stopping startpar bridge" messages for every upstart job.

---
 debian/changelog                        | 8 ++++++++
 debian/startpar.startpar-bridge.upstart | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1dffe45..e948b7d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+startpar (0.59-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Comment out description from the startpar upstart job, such that
+    plymouth-upstart-bridge does not spam boot messages with
+    "Starting/Stopping startpar bridge" messages for every upstart job.
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]>  Tue, 06 May 2014 10:04:37 +0100
+
 startpar (0.59-3) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Adjust 83_hardening.patch to a version more suitable for upstream.
diff --git a/debian/startpar.startpar-bridge.upstart b/debian/startpar.startpar-bridge.upstart
index 83e5d9b..64e0886 100644
--- a/debian/startpar.startpar-bridge.upstart
+++ b/debian/startpar.startpar-bridge.upstart
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 # started or stopped, in order to make a soft transition between sysvinit
 # scripts and upstart jobs possible
 
-description	"startpar bridge for notification of upstart job start/stop"
+# Comment out description such that plymouth-upstart-bridge does not
+# print endless messages about
+# "* Starting/Stopping startpar bridge..."
+#description	"startpar bridge for notification of upstart job start/stop"
 author		"Steve Langasek <[email protected]>"
 
 start on started JOB!=startpar-bridge or stopped JOB!=startpar-bridge
-- 
2.0.0.rc0

Regards,

Dimitri.
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