Hello all, On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 03:15:24PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Hello friends and colleagues, [...] > To avoid breakage of existing systems and facilitate ongoing support for > non-systemd inits, I would like to establish a consensus for > > - stating that initscripts remain useful.
If you add '... for non-default init systems' I might agree, but for the default init system I consider init scripts harmful. > > - requiring a coordinated transition of any initscript a maintainer wishes to > drop to the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package and providing the relevant > copyright information. Consider my vote AGAINST anything that puts the burden on package maintainers to do any extra work at this point. "Policy is not a stick to beat people with", etc. If you want me to take suggestions like coordination seriously then please consider adressing https://bugs.debian.org/934463 soon or admit that sysvinit maintenance lacks the resources to do coordinated transitions. Dropping things and letting people pick them up if they think they are still useful seems to be the only practical way forward. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
