Sorry for breaking the thread, but I no longer have the original post to
reply to.

Author: Steve Litt
Date: 2018-05-15 16:55 +200
To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Switching to OpenRC

> On Tue, 15 May 2018 23:39:24 +1000
> Tom <wirelessduck@???> wrote:
>
>> Thanks as always for your insightful information Steve. Much
>> appreciated. As someone who knows very little about init systems,
>> can you explain what this respawning business is all about?
>
> Terminology: I call the init system we've used for 30 years "sysvinit".

[...]

>> I didn’t
>> realise the existing sysv-rc
>
> I assume here you mean sysvinit when you write sysv-rc.

I think Tom is not referring to the whole init system, rather to just the
rc scripts:

Pure SysV Devuan Ascii:

[alessandro@wkstn09 ~ ]$ dpkg-query --search /etc/init.d/rc
sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/rc
[alessandro@wkstn09 ~ ]$

SysV+OpenRC Devuan Ascii:

alessandro@kratom:~$ dpkg-query --search /etc/init.d/rc
openrc: /etc/init.d/rc
alessandro@kratom:~$