Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

Debian has a history for providing a variety of packages with similar

functionality and leave the choice up to the user.

However, with systemd at the horizon, I don't see a need in supporting it

either.  Ubuntu will probably make the switch in near future as well.

I don't know what gives you that impression.

From my impression, systemd seems way more functional and well-designed

than upstart. It is - more or less - a clone of Apple's launchd with its socket-based

activation and the capability to replace whole init bash scripts with internal code.

There is a discussion about it here [1].

Adrian

[1] http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/why-ubuntu-should-continue-with-upstart-for-11-10/