Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 06:02:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
> > I don't currently have any reason to doubt we have a project consensus
> > that systemd unit files should be included in packages in addition to
> > sysvinit scripts, so I hope we can make this change.
>
> I agree. This seems entirely reasonable to me. Both the behavior and the
> inherent documentation are better with unit files, and systemd is the
> default init system so that's an advantage for a lot of our users.
>
> That said, if anyone does object to this, please do speak up and explain
> why this would be a problem.
There is a little technical detail that should be handled though:
User might have made change to /etc/default/xxx that is sourced
by /etc/init.d/xxx.
Such change must not be ignored by the unit files, because we require
configuration to be preserved across upgrade.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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