Hi!

golinux via Dng - 05.06.24, 17:33:21 CEST:
> On 2024-06-05 10:02, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> > altoid via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Sooner than later, not *one* package in the Debian repositories will
> >> have an initscript and as a result absolutely *everything* Devuan
> >> will be dead in the water.
> >
> > Even assuming init scripts weren't easily replaceable (which they
> > are),
> > using the script from the last version which packaged would be
> > relatively easy.
>
> Oh so easy but . . . Unless someone is willing to collect those init
> scripts and put them into the Devuan repository, your solution is purely
> theoretical wrt Devuan unless, of course, YOU are volunteering for the
> job?! ;)

In favor of arguing based on the current state of affairs a few notes:

It is called "orphan-sysvinit-scripts", available as a package in Debian
and thus Devuan and maintained by the Debian Init Diversity team¹.

Anyone can contribute of course. The team can be contacted through a
mailing list which "apt show" on the package will reveal.

A similar package is available for Runit. It is called "runit-services",
available in Debian and thus Devuan as well. Maintained by Lorenzo. I
contributed the zcfan service dir to it and intend to contribute a service
dir for Incus as well, in case the package maintainer for Incus would not
take it.

I like that those packages are maintained collaboratively by Debian and
Devuan maintainers in the Init Diversity team. That helps to reduce the
diff between Debian and Devuan.

[1] Arguably maybe not the best name for a team, but no better one was
found back then.

Best,
--
Martin