Bdale Garbee [2014-01-13 13:57 -0700]: > Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'm coming round to the view that we should be planning to support > > multiple systems indefinitely. > > This has been my opinion all along. Various assertions that it's > somehow just too hard really haven't swayed me. The tricky bit, I > think, is to define just what "support" means in the context of > non-default init systems.
I think that would be the worst possible (non-)decision that could be
made. We already have more than enough bugs in Debian; officially
trying to support 3 init systems is going to end up being a
combinatorial explosion of testing and bugs, for no obvious benefit
for the user ("pick your set of bugs").
It's not realistic for a maintainer to continuously test three init
systems; it's not realistic for a porter to continously test startup
scripts for thousands of packages. So "I would expect the community
for that init system to do the work" is not a plan; it's a vague hope
at best and not realistic at all in my opinion.
Martin
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