On 08/26/2016 01:47 AM, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Robert Edmonds <edmo...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> However, that was two years ago. How long should we be expected to >>> continue maintaining sysvinit scripts? >> >> My understanding of the feeling of the TC at the time is that maintainers >> are expected to continue including the sysvinit scripts for as long as (a >> reasonable number of) folks are using sysvinit with Debian and keeping it >> working, a bar that I think is still being easily met. > > I would guess that the vast majority of folks still using sysvinit with > Debian are running wheezy or older, and thus removing sysvinit scripts > from packages in unstable wouldn't affect them. But maybe that still > leaves a reasonable number of testing/unstable + sysvinit users. >
There are some cases when using sysvinit is preferred over systemd. AFAIK there is no way drop some capabilities with systemd geared linux containers while it is possible with sysvinit.
