On 10/13/18 12:58 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >>> no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and has >> RC bugs. sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only >> ever made one upload (over a year ago). > > It seems that these facts are either largely ignored or unknown and I > wonder if some noise should be made so that interested people can pick > up the work now and not only complain later.
Please also consider that OpenRC is in Debian, and well maintained. OpenRC is a very good alternative to sysv-rc, and it supports old-style sysv-rc init scripts (with LSB headers). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
