On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:00:12PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello Yves-Alexis > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote: > > with the appearance of multiple init systems, it might be helpful to > > know about the currently running init system in the information > > collected by reportbug. > > > > A quick idea would be to report the result of: > > > > readlink /proc/1/exe > > > > but that won't work if /proc is mounted with hidepid. I'm unsure about > > other ways though. > > I thought about it a bit, and i'm not sure it's an information every > bug report should have. I suspect there are few packages which are > directly impacted by the possible different init system Debian has, > and it's probably more useful if such packages write a bugscript to > retrieve the init which is running on the machine and attach it to the > report. > > what do you think?
Well, a *lot* stuff can actually change behavior depending on the init system, especially during transition time. Especially desktop environment and stuff handling permissions through policykit and logind/consolekit, but not only. If every package starts shipping a bugscript it'll be unmanageable. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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