Bug#727708: init system discussion status
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> The question isn't what you would prefer. The question is this:
> Are you going to vote to overrule a maintainer who says
> I have already implemented non-forking readiness protocol X and I
> think support for all init systems in my daemon should be done via
> one protocol. Please do send me a patch for your init system Y task
> file (and correponding packaging support) when init system Y has
> support for protocol X.
> ?
> ISTM that if this situation arises it is due to a failure by the init
> system to be sufficiently accomodating. I would vote to not overrule
> a maintainer in such a situation.
I would rather not state an opinion on this at the moment, since I think
it's a difficult decision and will depend on the exact situation in Debian
at the time, the importance of the package, the disruption that might be
caused by it not supporting a different init system, and so forth. It's
also going to matter quite a lot whether the one readiness protocol that
they implemented is one that's supported by the default init system, and
whether it's one supported by the init system used by the non-Linux ports.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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