Re: XVR500 and SysVInit
On 12/22/2016 08:57 AM, transmail wrote:
> Okay, thanks for warning me. If the binary support will be dropped,
> then i can still compile it manually.
Compiling a package from source is not maintaining it. Maintaining a package
means that there is someone who is looking after bugs and regressions and
fixing them.
There is no maintainer for sysvinit anymore which means serious bugs like
this one [1] remain unaddressed. You might be able to work-around this
single bug but future regressions due to changes in other daemons and
the kernel can potentially render your whole system unbootable in the
future.
If the people who invested all the time and effort to set up websites like
'without-systemd.org' actually took that energy to pick up the sysvinit
maintainership and start fixing the almost 400 issues the packages
has [2], these people would actually have a case and people like
you wouldn't enter a possible minefield.
But with the current situation, you have to be quite courageous to
replace core infrastructure on your machines with unmaintained
software. This is never a good idea, independent whether you like
systemd or not.
Adrian
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683103
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=sysvinit
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