Am 15.01.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Alec Leamas:
On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote:
I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting
existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that
people who want to use sysvinit (or upstart, or any other init system)
will have to contribute some support there in the form of bug reports and
patches, just as with any other non-default configuration in Debian.
Your
obligation as maintainer is to "merge reasonable contributions" as
mentioned above.
OK, seems that all agree that the scripts should be kept in the package.
So the question then becomes how. As you might have understood I have a
bad gut feeling about them.
Given this, would it be OK to put the sysV scripts in a separate
subpackage which can be properly commented?
I think a sub package is overkill and up until now, this has been
avoided in Debian.
If your package ships both a systemd service unit and a sysv init
script, you need to make sure that under systemd the native service file
is used.
The easiest way to achieve that is to use the same names for the unit
file and the init script, i.e.
/etc/init.d/foo should match /lib/systemd/system/foo.service
If the names do not match, you can ship a (static) symlink in the
package, say you have
/etc/init.d/foo and /lib/systemd/system/bar.service.
Then ship a symlink like this
/lib/systemd/system/foo.service → /lib/systemd/system/bar.service