On 19/01/14 12:20, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Why do you want Debian to support multiple init systems in the first place?
I think because: * whichever is chosen as default, there will be some users who specifically don't like it, or specifically want something else (including major consumers like Ubuntu (Upstart), or Spotify (systemd), or Google (SysV)) * the non-Linux ports may have no choice but to get some other init system working anyway (if systemd is chosen as the default on Linux - I am quite certain it would never be ported) * if people are going to be doing the above work anyway, let's make it available to everyone, Linux and non-Linux users alike * if the chosen init system turns out to be a disaster, we'd have an easy way out if we weren't fully reliant on it; or maybe another init system comes along for jessie+1, better than anything we have now, we'd have more agility in being able to adopt it right away (not like this current situation) > What level of support (if any) would that guarantee for Debian's ports > to non-Linux kernels? I don't think anyone can guarantee that in a volunteer project; nobody can be forced to do the work if they don't want to. Porters may have to work hard and restore any lost functionality they care enough about. I imagine such problems will be RC-severity bugs, so it should be possible within existing practices to get patches applied or NMUd. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
