On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:19:12AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Sorry this has taken so long; I spun my wheels on it > > for some time because I couldn't quite accept that there were so few > > additional requirements that needed to be specified here! > > Thanks for your work. :) > > [...] > > + tasks at boot time. However, any package integrating with other > > + init systems must also be backwards-compatible with > > + <package>sysvinit</package> by providing a SysV-style init script > > + with the same name as and equivalent functionality to any > > + init-specific job, as this is the only start-up configuration > > + method guaranteed to be supported by all init implementations. > > An > > + exception to this rule is scripts or jobs provided by the init > > + implementation itself; such jobs may be required for an > > + implementation-specific equivalent of the > > <file>/etc/rcS.d/</file> > > + scripts and may not have a one-to-one correspondence with the > > init > > + scripts. > > Maybe policy could allow (but discourage) packages that only support > some non-Sys-V init system as long as they include a dependency > indicating so?
This would be a terrible idea. We would end up with packages that will not be work together because they depend on different init systems. > One of the advantages of upstart and its kin is the simpler > configuration, after all, so I can imagine some maintainers wanting to > take advantage of that and not having time to debug a standard init > script. The example that led me to mention this is Bug#422139; it is > not quite the same issue but is related. The whole point of Debian policy is to promote interoperability, not to allow maintainer to make quick-and dirty packages. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110305132905.GD17663@yellowpig
