On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:05:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> The reaction to every single instance of someone finding it a pain to
> maintain sysvinit support should not be "as a reminder, the TC has a
> giant hammer and will hit you with it". The reaction should be "are
> there people willing to *help* maintain sysvinit compatibility, who
> actually use it, who will notice when it breaks, and who will send
> patches?"
I agree.
> I do think that developers (*not* the TC) with an interest in sysvinit
> support should explicitly say that if anyone needs help maintaining
> sysvinit support for their package, they'd be willing to volunteer to
> provide such help.
I agree.
> Anyone willing to volunteer for that?
I haven't found anybody personally volunteering for that. I just have
seen people saying that (other) people should (or will) do that.
So: do we have anyone, someone(s) who are volunteering to fix any bug
with init scripts in any package? Please raise your hands.
btw, somebody should also do something about #832508 ("O: systemd-shim)
I believe.
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cheers,
Holger
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