On Thursday 03 December 2020 at 11:55:22, aitor wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> On 12/3/20 10:32 AM, Antony Stone wrote:
> > I ask because I've looked at both Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 systems, and I
> > simply don't see the expected sysvinit packages available - I wonder if
> > they've been eliminated entirely, rather than just not installed by
> > default as Debian does.
>
> I don't know, but sysvinit may have been removed entirely from ubuntu
> since the early days of upstart, due to its backward compatibility with sysV
> scripts.

That's a fair point, however in 18.04 and 20.04 there are no packages with
"upstart" in the name either :(

> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.

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