new ballot proposed

Posted Feb 1, 2014 18:42 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: new ballot proposed by HelloWorld
Parent article: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Just great. Propose a vote with options that (if selected) would delay Jessie for a few years (systemd or upstart with no alternative, mandate OpenRC).

new ballot proposed

Posted Feb 1, 2014 20:16 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

Huh? Nobody said anything about a “no alternative” option. In fact there seems to be a consensus that sysvinit must be supported in jessie at least to allow for smooth upgrades.

new ballot proposed

Posted Feb 1, 2014 20:34 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

sysvinit scripts are well supported by either Upstart or systemd so there is no flag day that says all software must drop their sysvinit scripts to be supported by the modern init. It is also a fact that many systemd unit files already exist, because daemons are already packaged for one of the other distros, and in many cases the unit files are maintained by the upstream project.