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Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> > /etc/default/* files.  The options here are all fairly poor:

> Option 2 is also bad. There is a reason why we have /etc/default instead
> of setting the options in the init.d scripts directly. Most importantly
> the init.d scripts can be updated without dpkg questions.

See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html for a
description of the systemd upstream view (which also shows that Debian
has hardly been "ignored" like Steve Langasek claimed). The comments
also address some of the issues.


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