Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > They *HAVE* to be provided by the active init system. They are an > impedance matching layer (aka stable API) used by maintainer scripts to > interface with the active init system.
If you look at the existing implementation, you'll find that the version provided by sysv-rc already supports systemd, upstart, and sysv-rc itself. So this isn't precisely true. If we stick with the current model, then some (probably essential) package just needs to provide those implementations and accept patches to work with new init systems, but each init system doesn't need to provide its own version. There are some advantages to providing only one version with knowledge of all of the init systems given that we're supporting init system switching, and therefore may need to set up state for init systems that aren't currently running so that switching can work properly. A good example is registering an init script with insserv so that the correct S and K links are created even if the system is currently booted with a different init system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87bny4ou68....@windlord.stanford.edu
