Bdale Garbee [2014-01-13 13:57 -0700]: > Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > > I'm coming round to the view that we should be planning to support > > multiple systems indefinitely. > > This has been my opinion all along. Various assertions that it's > somehow just too hard really haven't swayed me. The tricky bit, I > think, is to define just what "support" means in the context of > non-default init systems. I think that would be the worst possible (non-)decision that could be made. We already have more than enough bugs in Debian; officially trying to support 3 init systems is going to end up being a combinatorial explosion of testing and bugs, for no obvious benefit for the user ("pick your set of bugs"). It's not realistic for a maintainer to continuously test three init systems; it's not realistic for a porter to continously test startup scripts for thousands of packages. So "I would expect the community for that init system to do the work" is not a plan; it's a vague hope at best and not realistic at all in my opinion. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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