Bug#727708: init system discussion status

[Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

Clint Adams <clint@debian.org> writes:

> As loath as I am to participate in this discussion, I have to ask if
> your intent is to suddenly outlaw all the packages which depend on
> runit.

I don't think runit (or daemontools) are init systems.  If you feel like
that may be ambiguous, we should say that explicitly.  (This is one of the
problems with how to word matters around OpenRC, since in a way it's
actually closer to daemontools or runit.  The latter just never attempted
to deal with *all* the startup scripts.)

Upstart running as a session init is not really an init system either, then, under that definition. Perhaps we should ban packages that depend on a certain init system being PID 1. Upstart, runit, daemontools, Circus, God etc. can run as session inits on top of any other init system, and therefore will have a small, confined effect when doing so and should be allowed.

Regards,

Cameron