diff -u vblade-16/debian/vblade.init vblade-16/debian/vblade.init
--- vblade-16/debian/vblade.init
+++ vblade-16/debian/vblade.init
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@
    ALLOWMACS=""
    [ -n "$5" ] && ALLOWMACS="-m $5"
    ID="$1-e$2.$3"
+   mkdir -p /var/run/$prog
    PID_FILE=/var/run/$prog/${ID}.pid
    $prog $ALLOWMACS $2 $3 $1 $4 >> /var/log/$prog.log 2>&1 &
-   pid=$i
+   pid=$!
    echo $pid > $PID_FILE
    echo -n $"$4 (e$2.$3@$1) [pid $pid]"
    [ "$RETVAL" = 0 ] && log_end_msg 0 || log_end_msg 1
diff -u vblade-16/debian/control vblade-16/debian/control
--- vblade-16/debian/control
+++ vblade-16/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: David Martínez Moreno <ender@debian.org>
 Homepage: http://aoetools.sf.net
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
 
 Package: vblade
diff -u vblade-16/debian/changelog vblade-16/debian/changelog
--- vblade-16/debian/changelog
+++ vblade-16/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+vblade (16-1ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed debian/vblade.init: init.d script fails to start because
+    pid file not created properly.
+    Thanks to J. Bruce Fields. (LP: #223387)
+  * debian/control: updated standards version to 3.8.0
+
+ -- Imre Gergely <gimre@narancs.net>  Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:41:43 +0300
+
 vblade (16-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low
 
   * Drop vblade-persist to a Suggests: for now. It needs an MIR by itself, and