Bug#1055463: sysvinit-core: Please entirely remove SysVinit

[Matthias Geiger]

On 06.11.23 21:09, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

On Mon, 6 Nov 2023, Patrik Schindler wrote:

For this reason, I propose to remove SysVinit completely from the next Debian

Uhm NO‽

*shaking head*,
//mirabilos

This is caused by package maintainers just dropping init scripts, and not honoring the GR about init systems in Debian.

best,

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Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer
"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit des anders Denkenden" -- Rosa Luxemburg

The init-diversity team has been putting a lot of work into maintaining sysvinit and related packages; please appreciate the effort they are putting in. sysvinit (or openRC, in my case) is still usable with debian. The dropped scripts are provided by the orphan-sysvinit-scripts page. While some people would be probably happy to see sysvinit go it'd be a big loss for debian at whole.

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