On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:03:49PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > See, there is a clear difference:
[snip] > * if your software only works if started by this one init system - > that is a problem. I don't quite understand this - what if you depend on something that's only provided / supported on one init system? Take for example the case of logind before we had the shim? > The requirement is that software should be able to work regardless of > how it is started - by systemd, by sysvinit, by other init system or > by a plain shell script called from the "init=" kernel parameter. If > there are any dependant services, those should be also able to be > simply startable by anything. So we can't rely on a new library until that library is supported on all init systems? (e.g. logind before shim, etc) > All software in previous Debian releases > satisfied this requirement, so there wasn't even any need to consider > adding such requirement to the policy. Getting tired of these threads :( Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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