On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 02:38:48AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > You could always lift scripts from Wheezy and use them as a template.
Or even from jessie, now that Debian jessie in stable. -- hendrik > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Miles Fidelman <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 > > > > > > > > -- > > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
