+++ Russ Allbery [2016-01-15 10:04 -0800]: > Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Given all this: would it be OK to drop the sysV files in a stretch > > update?
Please don't. Some people still use sysVinit and expect things to work more-or-less as they did previously. > I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting > existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that > people who want to use sysvinit (or upstart, or any other init system) > will have to contribute some support there in the form of bug reports and > patches, just as with any other non-default configuration in Debian. Exactly. We'll submit bugs if we notice breakage. And fixes if they are sufficiently obvious. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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