Bug#944039: ITP: docker-systemctl-replacement -- daemonless "systemctl" command to manage services without SystemD

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

Hi Dmitry

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 07:33:59PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
>    Package name: docker-systemctl-replacement

"docker" only shows up in the name of the package.  What is this about?
Also "docker" is the trademark of the software called "moby".

>     Description: daemonless "systemctl" command to manage services without SystemD

The name of the referenced software is "systemd", not "SystemD" or
similar.  Those variants have been usually used to insult, so please
don't.

>  "systemctl" is a replacement command to control system daemons without
>  SystemD. "systemctl" is useful in application containers where SystemD is
>  not available to start/stop services.
>  .
>  This script can also be run as init of an application container (i.e. the
>  main "CMD" on PID 1) where it will automatically bring up all enabled
>  services in the "multi-user.target" and where it will reap all zombies
>  from background processes in the container. When stopping such a container
>  it will also bring down all configured services correctly before exit.

I still don't know when I want to install this.

Bastian

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