On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 06:40:44PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:04:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Sep 06, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > > When should maintainers start adding upstart jobs to their packages? > > > > Not before the upstart compat package that provides upstart-job for > > > > sysvinit-based systems is available. > > > Is this relevant for Linux-specific packages as well? I.e., do we want > > > to continue supporting sysvinit on Linux systems? > > > for one: LSB somehow requires it. > > No. The LSB requires *LSB packages* to use init scripts. Debian > packages are not LSB packages.
Okay, my mistake.
> > second: I think it's disruptive for users to be unable to do
> > /etc/init.d/$service stop/start/restart anymore.
>
> The transition plan here is to allow users to use the 'service' command
> ('service $service stop/start/restart') as an abstraction layer. If the
> ports all migrate to upstart too, we'll eventually want to stop shipping
> these symlinks.
I see. Let's hope our SHELLs will pick up completions soon enough then
;)
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