On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:04:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net> writes: > > > I find that statement quite encouraging. Of course they don't commit > > to not having those depend on systemd-as-PID1, but there really isn't > > a reason to create that dependency, and if for whatever reason there > > will be one at some point, we can switch away on systems that don't > > support that change rather easily. > > I specifically asked that question in a follow-up to that message and > Zbyszek said that this is very likely to continue to work indefinitely.
Hi, we talked this over in systemd upstream, and decided to make the promise a bit more official [0]. Independent operation of a bunch of programs is now explicitly covered, and the stability promise has been extended to more interfaces. The old wiki page with the stability/portability charts [1,2] is now replaced by an in-repo page [3], which is the new official location for this data [4]. [0] https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/#independent-operation-of-systemd-programs [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePortabilityAndStabilityChart/ [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise/ [3] https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/ Zbyszek
