Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision"):>> 6. Debian's non-Linux ports should either use the same init system as >> Debian's Linux ports or agree on an init system that they're both going >> to use. The porting work is going to be hard enough without the ports >> going in different directions on which secondary init system they want >> to use. I prefer to leave it up to the porters to decide which init >> system to choose, but I do think OpenRC would be a strong contender. > Is there some difficulty expected with upstart on hurd ? I don't know if anyone has looked at it, and in the absence of any practical experience, I think it's fair to expect some challenges. The blog post on kFreeBSD porting indicated that the porting effort to date required eglibc and FreeBSD kernel changes. It seems like a reasonable assumption that at least a similar level of effort will be required on Hurd, and I don't know if the Hurd has as mature (if incompatible) capabilities such as kqueue on FreeBSD to use to implement such things as inotify or epoll. I know very little about the Hurd, so basically I just don't know. > I would be very reluctant to write now that the support for sysvinit, or > the non-default new system, may be dropped in jessie+1. That will > result in premature rot and removal. > It's also possible that some kind of compatibility mechanism will become > available. That's a reasonable point. I have no objections to deferring that decision until after the jessie release. > I would like to leave this decision to the policy maintainers, with the > expectation that the TC will probably need to decide. Yeah, with my Policy hat on, I don't want any piece of that one. I would be inclined to immediately escalate to the TC. I don't believe that Policy's conservative consensus approach is going to work here, and I expect trying to be painful. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
