But now we're back into having to have a completely separate package
repository, along with a full set of package maintainers. Sigh.....
T.J. Duchene wrote:
> 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@??? <mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>> 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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