Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:49:57 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>
wrote:
>systemd cannot guess if a SysV init script should leave a daemon behind
>or not. Therefore, they are converted as "Type=forking", "Restart=no"
>"GuessMainPID=no" and "RemainAfterExit=yes". So, when a daemon stops
>unexpectedly, it is not restarted and "restart" doesn't work because the
>unit is still active.
Since we have made providing a native systemd service unit optional,
did we document this non-negligible shortcoming for both package
maintainers and our users?
Shouldn't we ask our package maintainers to provide native systemd
units to make systemd more useful for our systemd users?
Greetings
Marc
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