Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:20:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Right. Whichever init system we pick, I do expect the next step to be to
> drop the requirement to maintain sysvinit backwards-compatibility;
While I'm not sure from your mail whether you meant to suggest otherwise, I do
think that whatever we decide for jessie, we should continue the requirement of
sysvinit compatibility for at least one release after we ship with some more
modern init system.
Also, since all alternative init implementations under consideration do
support sysv-style init scripts, I think that whatever init system we
(well, you, the TC) end up choosing, the requirement in policy should be
that a package should ship either some init configuration for the
default init system, or a sysv-style init script. In fact, I think we
should continue to encourage the latter, in cases where it does make
sense (e.g., when a given daemon doesn't have any init system specific
features that could be enabled), since that will help our non-Linux
ports without significantly impacting performance of the new init
system.
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