Bug#591791: [PATCH] Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
>> How will "service" behave?
>
> service already handles upstart directly. It presumably could and should
> be extended in an equivalent way to handle systemd. I don't think that
> needs to be spelled out in Policy, since service is not an interface that
> (at least at the moment) is standardized in Policy.
FWIW, service doesn't handle well the situation where we're running
sysvinit but there's an upstart job installed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636054
It's an implementation detail, though, I guess it could be fixed in time.
Regards,
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