On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:40:58 +0100 Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On 10/29/19 11:19 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > of clear project guidance, no one is clearly empowered to prevent > > it from bitrotting. What is wrong with bitrotting if nobody cares about - in case nobody cares about it's the logical consequence. And please don't even try to enforce this care. > My understanding is that the current guidance is that doing init > script isn't mandatory. What is mandatory, is to ACK init scripts / > patches when contributed (through the BTS). I read it the same way - and also a logical consequece: if these patches lead to bugs, the maintainer should not be forced to fix the mess. I for myself would just remove buggy things that nobody care in a certain amount of time. > I think that's fair enough for everyone, and I don't see why we need > to change anything to this rule. Dito > Make what deferred decision? That we want to actively dismiss patches > adding init script support? This IMO would just destroy any work > attempted in the non-linux ports, or anyone willing to add support > for a new init system. I don't think that's fair for these. Voting > them out would not feel right. See it different: if the provided scripts/patches are good, why not take and keep them - systemd users are not hurt. If the scripts/patches don't work - ignore the upcoming bugs and downgrade everything about to whishlist - or if interested in: Fix the bugs. Default will work and good. And i don't want to provoke, i see it exactly this way, if people spend time one something, why blocking or discourage if it do no harm. I even merge patches for kfreebsd and the hurd upstream - but i would never active work on it. > As much as I understand, we never wrote or decided we would. We just > need to accept patches to add or fix sysv-rc scripts. What makes you > think sysv-rc scripts are mandatory? Good question - if these things are not mandatory nothing needs to change. > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > -- Alf Gaida BDBF C688 EFAD BA89 5A9F 464B CD28 0A0B 4D72 827C
