Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Arno Töll <debian@toell.net> writes:

> On 24.02.2012 17:07, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes: And we write a
>> compatibility layer for non-Linux
>>> systems, that generates sysvinit-compatible scripts based on
>>> systemd services or upstart jobs.
> ...
>> So what you are saying is:
>> 
>> Lets support more than one init system.
>
> That's not even close to what Josselin said.
>
> The maintainers would write descriptive systemd templates, which would
> be parsed and interpreted on Linux by systemd or transparently
> converted to a sysvinit compatible shell script on !Linux at
> boot/install time.

Or transparently converted to a sysvinit compatible shell script on
Linux at boot/install time.

=> sysvinit stays supported.

All that changes is that the sysvinit scripts aren't the source anymore
but generated.

MfG
        Goswin