On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
I find it depressing to see four init/rc systems, of which three are
mutually incompatible in every single possible aspect.
Just my two cents.
I would be quite happy to write service files for two (systemd, upstart) or three (systemd, upstart, openrc) of those in all my packages[*], if it stops the endless flamewar here. I would also be happy to have the requirement to support two (or three) of them in the Debian policy.
I know that we would still need to pick-up default, but that might be a slightly easier task than to decide the only supported init system.
* - That's just *6* out of my 70+ package, but I doubt that anybody has too much packages with init script to handle (and if that's the case he should have co-maintainers).