New memcached.confd and memcached.init are CR-LF terminated so init.d/memcached cannot be run ("bad interpreter runscript^M"). dos2unix-ed work as expected.
+ 24 Dec 2013; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> files/memcached.confd, + files/memcached.init: + Fixed line ending of new init.d and conf.d files. Thanks to Jan Psota for + reporting this in bug #495192. +
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