-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi there!
I've been asked to write about OpenRC here. I'm a bit reluctant to do it, but feel that it's my duty as I've been mentoring the OpenRC GSoC project this summer. Well, it's been a month the OpenRC package is waiting in the FTP NEW queue (after a successful GSoC project), so it's a bit silly to tell about something which isn't even in Debian yet... Though if anyone wants to test it, it's in /git/collab-maint/openrc.git on Alioth. Anyway, the main point of OpenRC, IMO, is that it can work on non-linux platforms. But at this point, it is hard to make a case for it, since the porting work (well, I should rather say the no-FTBFS work... as it should be only a mater of configuring the build environment) hasn't been done yet. :( Note that OpenRC already works on some (non-Debian) BSD platforms, and that it should be trivial to have it to build on kFreeBSD and Hurd, though I didn't (and probably wont in the next few weeks/months, due to professional duties and personal events) have time to work on this. Though when this is done, OpenRC will be a drop-in replacement, with normally very little trouble to take care of. I of course welcome anyone to work on these ports. With a bit more goodies than with sysv-rc (for example, cgroups support for the platforms who supports it), OpenRC can be seen as an evolution of it, with more features. As for my own opinion on #727708, I'd like the tech committee to decide we *must* continue to support something that works on kFreeBSD and Hurd (either sysv-rc, or OpenRC when it's fully working on all arch) as a requirement in the Debian policy, at least if we don't have an upstart working port for Hurd / kFreeBSD (if this ever happens). It is to be noted that it's Systemd upstream opinion as well that Debian has no choice but to support something else than Systemd (sysv-rc, OpenRC,...) scripts for platforms which wont ever be supported by Systemd (I discussed about that with Lennart during Debconf). Even if there's no such a decision from the tech-ctte, some ways of starting daemons must be done for the non-linux Debian archs. And OpenRC could be adopted for them (in the absence of Upstart / Systemd), to simplify writing of these init scripts and bring more features. So, whatever the tech-ctte decides, OpenRC, in my opinion, makes sense! :) I also would like to wish good luck to the tech-ctte. Whatever you will decide, I will support it. I wouldn't like to be in your seats, and I hope everyone will also support your final decision. Hoping that the work on OpenRC will be useful for Debian, Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSbA5ZAAoJENQWrRWsa0P+YYUP/37zqCtcornktT3xb7LKC4w7 ZdDig/g6cGW1JbL90q/6OPSN0CDUiVcF66HkP5RXk6jUG9CBm5OMmkz2+VX3THLR Vhnyd/t5dQiyBLGgSO9YI4I9DizppasYjRpqsK7O3bI7cfmGgg8xyBk6CL3Kblvm D7+jvRbBwdt+HqJccHsM4+n3mUgJFLOajVwU2E8Mp7TFY3bRwIyXWDPsE+7q0Jxi 1F1sS/bBxtaBOlj3tEAMRxLHH74bwKiT5VTo114ygQTu8ylsZ8hSCnNuDFSAm7mk 0TL28xaD1bA7VN2VwYd41J/KIWHel+0In5fG7FOIX1DGf543Fyei+CfpaINAHS+7 Yt8X2C/EFJr/4dERXTrxhxSN9T0B8fRvXwe1I6KEvcoyzIsEKjJO/yJxmr8NNrVA w5Qp/jjLfrL82HlUIdvva4OonFCHGIVZkP+KFjTYMnKUJ9mlOnqCIF7m+cfH7ZkR RFfodY3eWAiVY+Nq2SJ0EB9R+cslxXovotNvmMZQvagLIhlLC+qXMGTkV6VvXHbF B0nVT6qCGmuDHQSUBCCeGy7nEKU1ObRcyfW3YJ0tiXmOTBuCBltHJpOiV4OwBcMK 7b20W8AtAyTbdtheksoUS4TSg25LOAQfeP0Gk0AVDV7nDDGLDVcCJ6L84JBjcu03 5wvRVoh1K0uf/pC/jWM9 =E/op -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
