Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Matthew Vernon wrote:
>
> >I'm aware of some work ongoing at the moment to try and improve matters
> >(currently looking at elongind, for example). If anyone's got some
>
> What’s elongind? elogind? Never heard of it…
elogind is an isolated part extracted from systemd-logind, maintained by Void
people, and in use by several other distributions (Gentoo, Devuan, etc). It
is a drop-in replacement for interfaces exposed by libpam-systemd.
I'm using it for several months myself, and intended to package it in
Debian, but had a lack of tuits to do so.
I just started a new job and I think I'll have a small but non-zero amount
of tuits in the evenings, but havent't finished moving and can't comfortably
run anything that needs reasonable VMs (got nothing but a Pinebook with me),
so I can't be of much help -- but if anyone wants to start the work on
elogind, I'll try to do what I can.
> >interest/effort in getting sysvinit (and related bits) in a better state
> >for buster, do drop me a line.
>
> I’ve volunteered to help out earlier in the thread, within constraints
> (but rather that than to see things go and break).
The main problem with sysvinit is the lack of a git repository. There's a
massive amount of opportunities for drive-by contributions, but no way to
collaborate doing so.
Then, there are nice-looking new upstream releases of sysvinit (three in
this year, after several years of dormancy), but that'd require some real
testing. Unlike elogind, it could perhaps reasonably be tested remotely...
Meow!
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