On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 06:26 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> On 2016-05-18 12:11, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > ...
> > I'm listed as a co-maintainer of openrc (as well as ifupdown).
> > However, due to
> > the hostile environment in Debian I'm reluctant to do any serious
> > work on these
> > packages, except contributing to RC bugs being solved, to keep them
> > in testing.
> > > ...
> > In my opinion the usage of init-system-helpers is wrong, why not
> > use the package
> > update system already available: update-alternatives? See also
> > dpkg-divert.
>
> +1
> > The idea could be developed further, to use debian's proven
> > 'update-alternatives' method for switching amongst init-systems.

What do you say, maybe we should create a package named init-freedom
(suggested by jaromil/nexttime?) using the update-alternatives tool?
That would override the debian init-system-helpers, which I find fairly
obsolete, but it is probably there due to systemd-sysv.