On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 01:54:52PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 07:25:14PM +0200, dng@??? wrote:
> > On 05-06-2024 19:10, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > golinux via Dng - 05.06.24, 17:33:21 CEST:
> > > > 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,
> >
> > Nothing wrong with the name Debian Init Diversity team i.m.o. But the name
> > orphan-sysvinit-scripts does not cover the runit scripts you are adding. And
> > eventually any other init scripts which will be endangered by systemd. I
> > would suggest orphan-non-systemd-scripts or just orphan-init-scripts.
>
> Well, there is already such a package for runit: runit-services.

OOPS. It seems it is not present in Devuan chimaera.
Is it present in more recent Devuan releases?

-- hendrik

> Of course these runit scripts wouldn't be in a package called orphan-sysvinit-scripts.
> That package is fot the sysvinit init system.
>
> I think it is useful to have the various init-script packages labelled with the
> name of the init system they are for.
>
> -- hendrik
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