Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
On 08/26/2016 01:47 AM, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Robert Edmonds <edmonds@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> However, that was two years ago. How long should we be expected to
>>> continue maintaining sysvinit scripts?
>>
>> My understanding of the feeling of the TC at the time is that maintainers
>> are expected to continue including the sysvinit scripts for as long as (a
>> reasonable number of) folks are using sysvinit with Debian and keeping it
>> working, a bar that I think is still being easily met.
>
> I would guess that the vast majority of folks still using sysvinit with
> Debian are running wheezy or older, and thus removing sysvinit scripts
> from packages in unstable wouldn't affect them. But maybe that still
> leaves a reasonable number of testing/unstable + sysvinit users.
>
There are some cases when using sysvinit is preferred over systemd.
AFAIK there is no way drop some capabilities with systemd geared linux
containers while it is possible with sysvinit.
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