Bug#835507: Please clarify that sysvinit support decision is not going to expire

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

Sam Hartman writes ("Re: Bug#835507: Please clarify that sysvinit support decision is not going to expire"):
> [Ian Jackson:]
> > I am running stretch with sysvinit on my laptop.  It seems to
> > work for me.  I haven't conducted any kind of systematic
> > survey.
> 
> That's the rough estimate I thought you could provide easily and was
> looking for.

Good.  Thanks.

> That's good enough that I definitely support reaffirming policy 9.3.2
> and 9.3.3.

Thanks.


I don't know if you want to include in your resolution a list of
examples of things which are NOT good reasons to drop sysvinit
support.

Such bad reasons, which have been advanced on debian-devel, include:

 * The maintainer does not have a system running sysvinit to use
    for testing and development of the sysvinit scripts.

 * The package only supports Linux.

 * The package has really good systemd integration.

 * "It's time to let sysvinit die".  (In some cases phrased as "the TC
   decision was 2 years ago" or some such.)

Ian.

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