* debian/patches/use-upstart-private-socket.patch: instead of using
system dbus, use private upstart socket in the plymouth-upstart-bridge.
* debian/plymouth.plymouth-upstart-bridge.upstart: start
plymouth-upstart-bridge on startup, and thus gather a more complete
boot.log.
* debian/patches/dont-bail-on-dummy-terms.patch: don't bail
plymouth-upstart-bridge if TERM is not set and/or running on a dummy
terminal, as we can run on those. This makes console-log useful in
lxc-containers and actually contain messages from upstart jobs
starting and stopping.
* debian/patches/no-print-empty-description.patch: do not store
description when dbus returns empty string, and thus stop printing
empty "Starting... done" messages.
* debian/plymouth.plymouth-upstart-bridge.upstart: update stop on
conditions to stop when plymouth-shutdown finishes.
* Make ubuntu-logo theme support scale factor, provide one plymouth
theme with scale 1 and another with scale 2, until scale factor can be
dynamically detected.
* Mark plymouth-upstart-bridge to respawn.
This results in following improvements:
* more complete /var/log/boot.log (e.g. from startup event, not just from dbus event)
* now generates a /var/log/boot.log in the LXC containers
* does not print empty/pointless " * Starting/Stopping" messages (e.g. those generated by startpar bridge)
* ubuntu-logo theme now supports a scalingfactor, it's not auto-detected or user-adjustable, but there is an alternative theme with scaling factor 2, which one can choose to use with update-alternatives
I believe we need/want all of those improvements for 14.04 LTS.
I think these are arguably bug fix; no FFe required - just please make sure the changes are well reviewed and tested.
(unsubscribing RT)