Russ Allbery wrote: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Dec 31, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > >> These are running stretch, and I would like to upgrade them without > >> breaking my existing scripts, which assume sysvinit with runlevels > >> (including one-shot runlevels). > > > Somebody having legacy scripts which assume sysvinit and that they do > > not want to change does not make "sysvinit preferred over systemd" as it > > is being argued. > > It does, however, mean that it's a good idea for us to continue to support > sysvinit.
Not quite. It means we should maintain support for sysvinit *scripts* for the foreseeable future; there's no good reason for us to break support for /etc/init.d/* any time soon. (It might become necessary to provide a migration mechanism that helps sysadmins move their legacy rcS.d scripts, but that shouldn't be particularly hard when nothing in Debian ships such scripts anymore.)
