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Re: The future of the boot system in Debian



On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:52:22AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 06:40:44PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:04:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > On Sep 06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > > When should maintainers start adding upstart jobs to their packages?
> > > > Not before the upstart compat package that provides upstart-job for
> > > > sysvinit-based systems is available.
> > > Is this relevant for Linux-specific packages as well? I.e., do we want
> > > to continue supporting sysvinit on Linux systems?
> 
> > for one: LSB somehow requires it.
> 
> No.  The LSB requires *LSB packages* to use init scripts.  Debian
> packages are not LSB packages.

Okay, my mistake.

> > second:  I think it's disruptive for users to be unable to do
> >          /etc/init.d/$service stop/start/restart anymore.
> 
> The transition plan here is to allow users to use the 'service' command
> ('service $service stop/start/restart') as an abstraction layer.  If the
> ports all migrate to upstart too, we'll eventually want to stop shipping
> these symlinks.

I see. Let's hope our SHELLs will pick up completions soon enough then
;)


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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
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