Re: Proposal: Init Diversity

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 01:08:08PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
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> Here I formally propose update of my draft and withdraw all previous
> versions. This version contains only grammatical fixes and does not
> change meaning.
> 
> Here I formally propose update of my draft and withdraw all previous
> versions. This version contains only grammatical fixes and does not
> change meaning.
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> Being able to run Debian systems with init systems other than systemd
> continues to be of value to the project. Every package MUST work with
> pid1 != systemd, unless it was designed by upstream to work exclusively
> with systemd and no support for running without systemd is available.
> 
> Software is not to be considered to be designed by upstream to work
> exclusively with systemd merely because upstream does not provide,
> and/or will not accept, an init script.

I counted enough seconds, but didn't have time to properly write
them down yet. But I've pushed my current version.

I've currently put the title to "Packages should support
non-systemd". Suggestions welcome.


Kurt