Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes:
> OpenRC is actively maintained upstream, and is a full replacement of > sysv-rc, including many improvements. > > Currently, packages are stuck with long, non-declarative sysv-rc > scripts, and cannot switch to superior runscripts, interpreted by > /sbin/openrc-run, which enable declarative-only scripts. > > So, my proposal is to get rid of sysv-rc provided by sysvinit, in the > favor of OpenRC, so that developers can start replacing their init > scripts by superior runscripts. > > Note that this doesn't mean we completely get rid of the sysvinit > source package, as we still need a large chunk of it, like for example > the PID 1 in OpenRC can continue to be sysvinit. We also probably need > other components, like for example bootlogd, sysvinit-utils, and maybe > others. > > I'm opening this discussion in the BTS, as I would like to see what > the opinion of sysvinit maintainers is. > > I'm also unsure what would be technically needed to get sysv-rc > automatically be replaced by OpenRC. Maybe we could make sysv-rc > become a metapackage that depends on OpenRC? I think it would be time when OpenRC has a systemd .ini parser, to also make use of systemd units. Yours, Benda
