Source: sysvinit Severity: normal Dear sysvinit maintainers,
OpenRC is actively maintained upstream, and is a full replacement of sysv-rc, including many improvements. Currently, packages are stuck with long, non-declarative sysv-rc scripts, and cannot switch to superior runscripts, interpreted by /sbin/openrc-run, which enable declarative-only scripts. So, my proposal is to get rid of sysv-rc provided by sysvinit, in the favor of OpenRC, so that developers can start replacing their init scripts by superior runscripts. Note that this doesn't mean we completely get rid of the sysvinit source package, as we still need a large chunk of it, like for example the PID 1 in OpenRC can continue to be sysvinit. We also probably need other components, like for example bootlogd, sysvinit-utils, and maybe others. I'm opening this discussion in the BTS, as I would like to see what the opinion of sysvinit maintainers is. I'm also unsure what would be technically needed to get sysv-rc automatically be replaced by OpenRC. Maybe we could make sysv-rc become a metapackage that depends on OpenRC? Your thoughts? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
