Hi, On 27/05/13 at 09:13 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > > > I find it depressing to see four init/rc systems, of which three are > > mutually incompatible in every single possible aspect. > > > > Just my two cents. > > I would be quite happy to write service files for two (systemd, upstart) or > three (systemd, upstart, openrc) of those in all my packages[*], if it > stops the endless flamewar here. I would also be happy to have the > requirement to support two (or three) of them in the Debian policy. > > I know that we would still need to pick-up default, but that might be a > slightly easier task than to decide the only supported init system. > > * - That's just *6* out of my 70+ package, but I doubt that anybody has too > much packages with init script to handle (and if that's the case he should > have co-maintainers).
The point has been made (in [1]) that the problem of supporting several init implementations is not really with packages providing services, but with packages strongly tied with the init system. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01275.html However, I would very much welcome a more detailed justification of that point. Lucas -- 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/20130527075128.ga16...@xanadu.blop.info
