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David, I think you're missing an important point: Quagga has a much greater 
interest in being available on many platforms, than individual 
platforms/distros have in making quagga available. To the extent that a larger 
user base is desirable, the project should suck it up and make an effort to 
keep init scripts (systemd configs, etc.) current, because the alternative is 
to have older or broken versions in some/many repositories.

Take for example netatalk - a significant project, with a large user base. 
Nevertheless, for years you couldn't build a working version in ubuntu from 
apt(itude) because it was out of date and broken. Now that that's no longer the 
case, the version available is still dramatically out of date. This is all 
because the maintainer simply didn't have the time to do a new version.

Every little thing you do to make it harder for distros to keep quagga current 
(or get it running correctly in the first place) will have an outsized impact 
on how current quagga is in their repos. And the more out of date they get, the 
more "try again with the current version" noise there will be in the lists.

Because of this I think it's in the project's interest to keep init scripts 
around, and getting rid of them is a false economy.

/a
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