Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > On 05/23/2013 01:45 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> I understand it will be a pain for Ubuntu if Debian picks a different >> init system. I don’t think this is relevant for the discussion, though. > > It might be very relevant for many of us that our package works on > *both* Debian and Ubuntu (and other derivative, including those who > derive from Ubuntu, like for example Mint) without too much > modifications. Some of my packages already incorporate some upstart > script for that reason.
As someone who packages software that has explicit systemd supporting bits and pieces, which needs to be turned off on Ubuntu (at least pre-raring Ubuntu), I'd like to note that doing this is *simple*. Ubuntu have been patching out the systemd support from the syslog-ng package anyway, doing the same myself for my own packaging was trivial. I needed to make two modifications: remove libsystemd-daemon-dev from build-depends, and not install the unit files. In the future, when there'll be a dh_* tool to do the latter, I will need to do even less. Also, post-raring, systemd is available in Ubuntu aswell, and in some cases, you can check for systemd at runtime, needing no modification to the package *at all*. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj1eb26c.fsf@algernon.balabit
