On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:31:32PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Personally, I don't think there's more than one sane choice for Jessie anyway: > > 1. Init systems in Debian MUST provided compatibility with sysvinit scripts. > 2. Packages needing an init MUST provide a sysvinit script and may provide > native init scripts also for alternative systems. > 3. For the various CD #1 options, there can be different default init scripts > > Something like that. Anyone who thinks their pet sysvinit alternate is going > to destroy all opposition and become the one true init for Jessie is dreaming.
Even if we all suddenly agreed to one option, a switch for Jessie is impossible because of upgrades: a system must not become unusable before init is reloaded on reboot. Just like kernels, the previous stable release's init must be enough for daemons, as you can't[1] replace the running init. Thus, sysvinit compat must remain at least until after Jessie. [1]. Technically, on modern Linux you can ptrace init, and thus force it to exec() something else, but that's obviously not a real option here. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- 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/20131026034118.gb4...@angband.pl
