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openrc 0.63.3-3

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Descriptiondependency based service manager (runlevel change mechanism)

OpenRC is a dependency based service manager. It provides support for System V init, for booting, changing runlevels, starting and stopping services, and shutting down.

Originally written as a Gentoo project, OpenRC aims at being platform-agnostic. It works equally well on Linux, BSD and Hurd. It supports the traditional init system in Debian in addition to many alternatives. OpenRC is implemented in C in a small, simple and efficient way, making it easy to understand, extend and reuse.

This package provides the runlevel change mechanism.

MaintainerOpenRC Debian Maintainers <openrc@packages.debian.org>
Changed ByMark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
Sponsorleepen@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany all
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/openrc.git (browse)
Closes#1140888
Popcon Installs78
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openrc
Uploaded3 hours ago

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Architecturesource amd64 all
Distributionexperimental
DateWed, 19 Aug 2026 17:21:17 +0100
Sourceopenrc
Version0.63.3-3
Changed-ByMark Hindley
Changelog
openrc (0.63.3-3) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/control: remove empty Multi-Arch field (cruft).
 .
 openrc (0.63.3-2) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Mo Zhou ]
   * Drop myself from uploaders.
 .
   [ Matthias Geiger ]
   * Provide openrc-init package.
 .
   [ Mark Hindley ]
   * d/control: change to debhelper compat 14 and remove obsolete
     substvars.
   * Drop unnecessary use of dh-exec.
   * Provide openrc-dbus-user-session package (Closes: #1140888).
   * d/copyright: add myself in respect of debian/*.
   * Add openrc-init manpage symlinks for shutdown(8), halt(8), poweroff(8)
     and reboot(8).
   * Add diversions for manpage symlinks to avoid file conflict with
     manpages-*.
   * d/NEWS.openrc: update.
.dsc
Componentmain
Package-Listlibeinfo-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libeinfo1 deb libs optional arch=any
librc-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
librc1t64 deb libs optional arch=any
openrc deb admin optional arch=any
openrc-dbus-user-session deb admin optional arch=all
openrc-init deb admin optional arch=all
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: openrc
Upstream-Contact: OpenRC maintainers <openrc@gentoo.org>
Source: git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/openrc.git, http://github.com/OpenRC/openrc

Files: *
Copyright: (c) 1992-2012, FreeBSD Project
           (c) 2004-2007,2011-2013 Gentoo Foundation
           (c) 2007-2009, Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
           (c) 2012-2013, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
           (c) 2012, Alexander Vershilov <qnikst@gentoo.org>
           (c) 2012, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
License: BSD-2-clauses

Files: debian/*
Copyright: (c) 2012-2013, Roger Leigh <Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
           (c) 2012-2014, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
           (c) 2012-2013, Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>
           (c) 2013, Bill Wang, <freecnpro@gmail.com>
           (c) 2000,2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
	   (c) 2022, Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

License: GPL-2+
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 .
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 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
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 this program; if not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License v2
 (GPL) can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

License: BSD-2-clauses
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