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Autor: T.J. Duchene
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A: Miles Fidelman
Cc: dng@lists.dyne.org
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Init scripts in packages
You could always lift scripts from Wheezy and use them as a template.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@???>
wrote:

> T.J. Duchene wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 08/07/2015 09:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Trivial as in, somebody has to do it. The whole point of packaging is
>>> to automate a lot of the routine things involved in installation.
>>>
>>> And, because Debian (and presumeably Devuan) don't put stuff in default
>>> locations, packaging involves changing the default locations of things.
>>>
>>> Where this leads is that down the road, we either need a full set of
>>> Devuan-specific package maintainers, or everybody is back to compiling and
>>> installing from upstream source.
>>>
>>> Miles Fidelman
>>>
>>>
>> Good evening, Miles! =)
>>
>
> Good morning T.J. !
>
>>
>> If I might offer an opinion, I do not think that the situation is quite
>> that dire. The packages that require init scripts are a tiny fraction of
>> the entire repository. For the moment, the scripts Devuan needs are still
>> in the Debian archives as Jesse has System 5 support.
>>
>> Devuan can just replicate them and support them moving forward.
>>
>>
> Well, maybe. The original poster started with the statement "Currently
> Debian packages contains both systemd units and init scripts. However,
> Debian developers refused to support several init systems. So it's only a
> matter of time when they remove init scripts from packages." If that's
> true, then we have problem.
>
> My sense is that systemd is having close to zero effect on upstream code -
> most stuff is shipping with traditional sysv init scripts, with some folks
> adding systemd units, but most basically ignoring systemd.
>
> If the Debian packagers do what makes sense - i.e., simply tweak sysv init
> scripts that come from upstream, and rely on systemd's support for init
> scripts, then all is copacetic.
>
> If, instead, they start removing the sysv scripts, and including homebrew
> systemd units - then we're in for a mess of rework.
>
> Miles
>
>
>
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