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Re: Draft text on Init Systems GR



[2019-11-15 01:10] Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com>
> I guess my question is what does it mean to say "designed by upstream
> to work exclusively with systemd"?  Is that ambiguous, or clear to
> everyone? I think we're going to hit grey areas, where upstreams may
> only test with systemd, but that it can be made to work with any init
> system.

You raise valid concerns. My intention was that if there is init.d
script that works, it must still be maintained.

On other hand, if software has non-configurable dependency on systemd,
and making it work without systemd requires source patching, it
classfies as "upstream design".
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