I'd suggest raising this with the Debian maintainer in their bug tracker, but this doesn't seem like a good thing to deviate on for a community-maintained package, it seems more vital that it be kept uptodate (currently it's synced automatically from Debian, then it would need manual work) and I don't believe that there's a generally good answer for default timeout.
Upstream seems to set infinity as the timeouts, but I wouldn't say I agree with that concept, and that it's best to err on the side of caution to get a machine that can actually shut down or have the service fail if it's hanging during startup. That is, I believe short timeouts are the right defaults, if you need longer you can adjust them for your use case locally. Note that you're wrong in the aspect of systems abilities: services can send EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC= on the notify socket to extend the timeouts, assuming they are notifying. ** Changed in: redis (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2068542 Title: Redis start is impossible with big DB because of start timeout To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redis/+bug/2068542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs