On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:03:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 10/08/2012 08:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Wasn't the idea of porting to non-Linux rejected by upstart's upstream? > > Porting upstart to non-Linux kernels has never been rejected by upstream. > > It just requires porters to do the porting; no one involved in upstart > > upstream has any applicable BSD or Hurd porting experience. > If I recall correctly, non-Linux ports were required by upstream to be > maintained in a separate bzr branch, because upstart's upstream did not want > compatibility code inside the main code-base. This sounds very much like "if you > want to port it, fork it." That was several years ago, and there's a new upstream maintainer of upstart now. This would be open to rediscussion if there were any interested porters to discuss it with. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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