Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 06:02:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I agree. This seems entirely reasonable to me. Both the behavior and >> the inherent documentation are better with unit files, and systemd is >> the default init system so that's an advantage for a lot of our users. >> That said, if anyone does object to this, please do speak up and >> explain why this would be a problem. > There is a little technical detail that should be handled though: > User might have made change to /etc/default/xxx that is sourced > by /etc/init.d/xxx. > Such change must not be ignored by the unit files, because we require > configuration to be preserved across upgrade. Yes, good call. This is partly an unrelated issue in that anyone adding a unit file in the past also should have thought about this problem and tackled it in some way, but we're likely to make the problem more visible by encouraging a bunch of additional packages to add unit files. Do you have an idea for wording to use for this? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
