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Author: Martin Steigerwald
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New goodies from systemd
tito via Dng - 30.07.23, 10:10:31 CEST:
> > Here are some benefits:
> >
> > * Never again would some poor daemon upstream or package maintainer
> > need to burdon him/herself with init scripts, run scripts, unit
> > files
> > and all that stuff. They already did us a favor by
> > creating/packaging
> > the daemon: They shouldn't have the further demands of startup
> > scaffolding.
>
> I still think that a debian policy to actively hand over the
> runit,init,openrc scripts if removed to orphan-* packages is the
> easier alternative and probably could be setup as debian still states
> that it supports init diversity. What do the people that is/was in
> debian about this proposal?


Some maintainers in Debian already do this. See for example:

Bug#1042082: Please take over udev SysV init script

https://bugs.debian.org/1042082

However if its about discussing init diversity (I'd love to have a
better word for this) in Debian (!), this is clearly not the list that
is likely to reach all of people who do the actually work.

Debian-init-diversity -- Debian ecosystem init system diversity

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-init-diversity

is the list for that. And yes, its not on official Debian infra structure
on purpose. But there Devuan *and* Debian developers and developers
working for both distributions communicate with one another!

For anyone who has a proposal, I bet its also good to bring in some time
and willingness to contribute in some way.

Best,
--
Martin