Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 7, 2013 15:02 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by HelloWorld
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

> I, like 99% of all Debian users, don't care about the kFreeBSD or
> Hurd ports.

I don't use them, BUT ports are always a good idea to find bugs. And insofar, I care about them.

More interesting than different kernels are however different architectures. Debian ARM does much more to find bugs than Debian/Hurd does (and Hurd only runs on i386 anyway).

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 7, 2013 21:05 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> I don't use them, BUT ports are always a good idea to find bugs.
I disagree. Probably most of the bugs that are found by porting to other platforms only affect that platform or abstraction layers that only exist to make the software portable. I also think it's more efficient to spend time on dedicated debugging measures (code review, valgrinding, bug triaging etc.) than to spend it on a new port that nobody actually uses in production and hope for bugs to be eliminated as some sort of side effect.