Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > In an ideal world, (i) would be enough [since it determines the > behavior] and packagers could experiment Just to be clear: I was reading from the point of view of what a packager of an ordinary daemon needs to do. But the requirements on init systems are important, too

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:19:12AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> 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? > > I don't think that's something that should

Bug#591791: systemd point of view

2011-10-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek Hi Steve, | Picking up this policy thread after a bit... Let's see if we can drive this | to a conclusion now. Sounds good. | Right. I've looked around, and the better interface to use here is 'initctl | version'; this command tries to query the running init daemon over the

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Jonathan, On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:19:12AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > + tasks at boot time. However, any package integrating with other > > + init systems must also be backwards-compatible with > > + sysvinit by providing a SysV-style init script > > +

Bug#591791: systemd point of view

2011-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Tollef, Picking up this policy thread after a bit... Let's see if we can drive this to a conclusion now. On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:11:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >From the proposed policy patch: > + SysV init scripts for which > +an equivalent upstart job is available