Hi all. (Putting -bsd@ in the loop, since I believe not everyone there reads -devel@. The (very long) thread starts at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00269.html) Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> (20/07/2011): <context> > You are both framing the discussion through a fallacy: that the only > choice we have is either to drop kfreebsd or to keep insserv forever. > > There is no point in doing that. The only thing you are achieving is > throwing people against one another, without anything happening at the > technical level. > > Having concluded from this thread that 1) kfreebsd is important to > Debian and 2) systemd is important for Debian, the question cannot be > which one we choose between the two, but HOW we achieve both with the > least pain possible. </context> <important> > Several people have already explained that it should be possible to > write a script, working for most packages, to generate old-style init > scripts from systemd service files, allowing for a compatibility > wrapper on top of insserv for kfreebsd (until systemd is ported or a > compatible init is written for it). </important> Tollef also mentioned that on IRC, and I fail to see any better option right now. Some mentioned there could be security risks involved, in case one package relies on this or that feature on systemd's side, but I guess we could also live with a few special cases where init.d scripts could be maintained manually (rather than autogenerated from systemd service files). Mraw, KiBi.
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