Hi, chiming in as I've been pointed to this bug: I agree with Ansgar in that adding unit files does not hurt sysvinit support in the least, provided we still get to ignore them.
I'd even be in favour of making them mandatory (i.e. upgrading the lintian warning to an error), and I don't see how the GR outcome would affect the question of whether we want to ship unit files in packages, so I'd be fine with going ahead with this change even while the GR is still running. As long as we support sysv-rc, init scripts will have to remain mandatory as well, though. IMO, an ideal outcome would be that systemd can completely ignore any init scripts from Debian packages, i.e. the compatibility generator, if installed, would only have to generate units for init scripts that didn't come from a package, and default installations would not include this generator. The same should be done for cron files vs timer units -- ideally, we'd get to a state where cron files can be completely ignored by systemd because it is a bug to not have a timer unit with the same settings. That would allow systemd users to get rid of the spurious wakeups as well, which I'd consider a major win. Simon
