We have some services that have come to depend on behavior of 
svwaitup/svwaitdown to work.  As these are no longer built since 
runit-1.4.0, we're starting to face a problem, since we use the Debian 
packaged version:

sv -w 1000000 -v check <service> seems to return immediately.  We have no 
way to indefinitely block a service from starting without replacing this 
functionality with extra code that used to already exist, to our 
knowledge.

Are we missing something?

Thanks for any help you can provide.