Re: [DNG] Conversion script for maintainers

2019-12-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 23:04:56 + s@po wrote: > > I believe you are talking about Situation 1)( Give SysVInit the > Knowledge about SystemD unitFiles.. )? I thought this was settled law. Debian has sysvinit scripts, dropped ones can be gotten from Wheezy, and in other cases there exists a

Re: [DNG] Conversion script for maintainers

2019-12-03 Thread s
Hello all, >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 10:13:01 +0100 >From: Edward Bartolo via Dng >Dear All, > >Inits need to understand unit files, give them that functionality. >That is far more efficient compared to what you are doing. > >Pseudo Code: >1) check for the presence of a unit file >2) if it exists

Re: [DNG] Conversion script for maintainers

2019-12-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:58:10AM +0100, Denis Roio wrote: > I wholeheartedly agree with all your reasoning, quoted below. I don't > think that converting automatically at init or at package install is a > good idea: we need to keep this process under scrutiny by maintainers, > hoping more

Re: [DNG] Conversion script for maintainers

2019-12-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 08:58:10 +0100, Denis wrote in message <20191203075810.twxmme6ayyccbftf@reflex>: > > dear Massimo, > > you are very welcome :^) I'm happy to see here a fellow VUA :^D > > down to business ..thanks for talking good sense here, Denis and Massimo. :o) > > > If (assuming

Re: [DNG] Conversion script for maintainers

2019-12-03 Thread Denis Roio
dear Massimo, you are very welcome :^) I'm happy to see here a fellow VUA :^D down to business > If (assuming that) we are going to lose the source of init scripts > upstream, then it's the only way forward. (For those who consider > recognizing the unit files as a valid source a defeat: I