Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Michael Stapelberg writes ("Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au"):
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
> > 1. init systems will have to cope with packages supplying init scripts 
> > in several formats they support.
>
> Agreed. Effectively, this puts a lot of burden on individual maintainers
> (and also on some external packagers) to test their packages with 2+
> init systems and become familiar with how to properly mask units/handle
> diverting names, what features each system supports, what the best
> practices for each are, etc.

I would expect the community for that init system to do the work.  So
the burden on maintainers ought to be minimal.  All they ought to be
required to do is ship the init-system-specific config thingy supplied
by the community who are interested in that init system.  That might
even be done by NMU so the maintainer would often not have to do
anything at all.

Ian.