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Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts



On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 08:44:15AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > I'd like to suggest that this should only be done for daemons where
> > there is anything that a sysadmin can sensibly configure in this
> > way. The patch proposed for #712167 (native Upstart init support in
> > dbus) did this, but after checking the available command-line options in
> > dbus-daemon, I couldn't actually find any command-line options that can
> > be changed by a sysadmin without breaking system integration; so I think
> > it's OK that the systemd unit doesn't read /etc/default/dbus, and I
> > don't think the (potential future) Upstart job should either.

> I would argue....

> > (Perhaps this means /etc/init.d/dbus should stop reading /etc/default/dbus...)

> ...this.  If /etc/default is not useful, then it's not useful for the
> sysvinit support either, and it seems better to just drop it in all
> supported init systems rather than have it be inconsistent.  Either way,
> you'd need a NEWS entry, etc., so that seems cleaner to me.

Agreed.

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