On 05/28/2013 02:37 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:13:44AM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote: >> I would be quite happy to write service files for two (systemd, upstart) or >> three (systemd, upstart, openrc) of those in all my packages[*], if it >> stops the endless flamewar here. I would also be happy to have the >> requirement to support two (or three) of them in the Debian policy. > > My major point here was precisely that you are *not* done with just > writing the service/job descriptions/scripts for all those init systems. > You'd likely have to patch every single daemon to enable the socket > activation method for those init systems, that the authors of your > daemon did not like to use. > > If on the other hand you omit this patching, then that init system > partially loses one of its selling points. So instead of supporting one > init system properly, we support four init systems poorly.
Just to make sure I understood. What selling point are you talking about? Why is it necessary to patch daemons to have socket activation? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a8cc80.9050...@debian.org