Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

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

Sergey B Kirpichev writes ("Re: Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au"):
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:05:47PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Clearly, that's not the end of the job.  systemd/upstart/whatever
> configs could be buggy as everything other.  Currently, if maintainer
> provides sysv init script - he is responsible for related bugreports.
> 
> Who is responsible for supporting this in your scheme?  Or
> systemd/upstart configs supposed to be written once and
> work well forever?

It seems to me that the community for the particular init system ought
to fix this.  It's obviously not practical to ask the maintainer to
debug each of these scripts.

Ian.