On 15 January 2014 20:36, Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> wrote:
> It's not realistic for a maintainer to continuously test three init
> systems;

It's not realistic for a maintainer to continuously test against 13
architectures (including three different kernel trees) either. So we
don't do that and instead let maintainers make their best effort when
packaging, expect them to test locally, and then rely on porters and
users to report bugs when there are problems.

> it's not realistic for a porter to continously test startup
> scripts for thousands of packages.

It's reasonable to semi-continuously test installation scripts for
thousands of packages -- that's what piuparts does, and we have
sponsored cloud resources to support that. It seems like that would be
fairly straightforward to duplicate for testing packages with
alternative init systems.

Cheers,
aj


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