Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Less prone to errors than a manual process might be to watch
> > automatically where legacy startup scripts disappear anyway; it's not
> > that complicated to do. People tend to forget things.
>
> That sounds reasonable. It might be sufficient for the policy discussion to say
> that maintainers who drop sysv init scripts should file a bug against orphan-
> sysvinit-scripts with the final version of the provided init attached and which
> lists the lowest version that won't include it (so that orphan-sysvinit-
> scripts can Replaces << that version).
Automatically is clearly not the same as "file a bug". It is not a
useful way to ask hundreds of people to do things if you can do it on
your own.
Bastian
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