But now we're back into having to have a completely separate package
repository, along with a full set of package maintainers. Sigh.....
T.J. Duchene wrote:
You could always lift scripts from Wheezy and use them as a template.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidel...@meetinghouse.net <mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote:
T.J. Duchene wrote:
On 08/07/2015 09:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Trivial as in, somebody has to do it. The whole point of
packaging is to automate a lot of the routine things
involved in installation.
And, because Debian (and presumeably Devuan) don't put
stuff in default locations, packaging involves changing
the default locations of things.
Where this leads is that down the road, we either need a
full set of Devuan-specific package maintainers, or
everybody is back to compiling and installing from
upstream source.
Miles Fidelman
Good evening, Miles! =)
Good morning T.J. !
If I might offer an opinion, I do not think that the situation
is quite that dire. The packages that require init scripts
are a tiny fraction of the entire repository. For the moment,
the scripts Devuan needs are still in the Debian archives as
Jesse has System 5 support.
Devuan can just replicate them and support them moving forward.
Well, maybe. The original poster started with the statement
"Currently Debian packages contains both systemd units and init
scripts. However, Debian developers refused to support several
init systems. So it's only a matter of time when they remove init
scripts from packages." If that's true, then we have problem.
My sense is that systemd is having close to zero effect on
upstream code - most stuff is shipping with traditional sysv init
scripts, with some folks adding systemd units, but most basically
ignoring systemd.
If the Debian packagers do what makes sense - i.e., simply tweak
sysv init scripts that come from upstream, and rely on systemd's
support for init scripts, then all is copacetic.
If, instead, they start removing the sysv scripts, and including
homebrew systemd units - then we're in for a mess of rework.
Miles
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