Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> writes:
> And for those packages where it does not matter, it will cost extra
> developer concentration/time in ignoring the noise. Sorry, but this
> feels like being good for some, bad for all others. Developers
> interested in the information should add bug scripts now and if we then
> have the confirmed information that indeed lots of bug reports profit
> from this information, then the change should be pushed to reportbug. 
The problem with your approach (individual packages should add this) is
that it spreads out the work to a lot of maintainers, and a long time
may pass before a new version with the proper bug-script is uploaded. In
addition, to some maintainers it may not even be clear that the init
system is relevant to how their package works.

I think it’s much better to just add this unconditionally to
bugreports.

We also have the Kernel and Locale in bugreports, even though for many
reports it doesn’t matter. For those where it does, it’s very very
useful. I think the same applies to the init system.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael