On 19 October 2012 12:46, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/10/12 20:28, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: >> On 19 October 2012 12:19, Andrea Scarpino <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Please don't. We'll never drop initscripts this way. >>> Use AUR instead. >>> >>> -- >>> Andrea >>> Arch Linux Developer >> >> Actually, what would be the problem of me maintaining initscripts in >> community too, if that time comes? I don't plan to switch to systemd >> anytime soon. I don't see any problem dropping the initscripts & >> consolekit packages to AUR when no one (including me) would be willing >> to maintain them. >> > > So "maintaining" initscript would me actually adjusting/fixing them as > needed or just putting a package there?
I'd probably do only the bugfixing – I don't think there's any new functionality needed. > Because there has been repeated > calls for actually contributors towards initscripts without any > response. And if you are not going to do actual development of > initscripts, I will have to object on the basis that the software is > unmaintained upstream. > > Allan > It's possible that I missed some of this calls for contributors, but I already presented my will to help. I was told that mostly the testing is needed, and, well, initscripts works for me without any problems, so there are no bug reports from the in this regard. But I don't see any problem in diving into bugtracker and trying to fix some of the current issues too. Lukas
