Hi Andy, Just to set expectations... Ian is not using systemd at all, and for me, the current whatever init script stuff there is does its thing for my usecase at work. I don't use xendomains, I use live migrate to drain physical servers so I can reboot / upgrade / whatever them without any need to hurry. TBH, all the extra-time I had for working on Debian/Xen in the last months was eaten by getting things fixed for myself, like live migration bugs.
Yesterday, we spend the day working on the Buster TODO list, and in the beginning of the day we identified "init scripts and systemd" as the main topic of the day. However, when starting to look into that, it quickly became clear that "just" merging the debian and upstream init scripts is not a trivial operation (it needs discussion with the redhat-based users). When working on actually shipping systemd units we'd really need to have a group of users that want to actively help testing everything. Downgrade, upgrade, try to break it etc... For buster, there will be a notice in the "known-issues" section of README.Debian about this issue. If you have an idea about how to change this timeout then please share. Don't wait for it to magically happen. :) Hans
