Re: XVR500 and SysVInit

2016-12-22 Thread transmail
> Most of the other init systems aren't actually maintained either. Upstart > was dropped by Canonical and OpenRC and runit are merely moving along. > It's > just too much of a big effort trying to keep up when the rest of the Linux > plumberland is moving so quickly. Most of them? Then there are

Re: XVR500 and SysVInit

2016-12-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/22/2016 12:09 PM, transmail wrote: >> If the people who invested all the time and effort to set up websites like >> 'without-systemd.org' actually took that energy to pick up the sysvinit >> maintainership and start fixing the almost 400 issues the packages >> has [2], these people would actu

Re: XVR500 and SysVInit

2016-12-22 Thread transmail
> Compiling a package from source is not maintaining it. Maintaining a package > means that there is someone who is looking after bugs and regressions and > fixing them. I have never said i am gonna maintain it. I just want to install and use it. > There is no maintainer for sysvinit anymore whic

Re: XVR500 and SysVInit

2016-12-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/22/2016 08:57 AM, transmail wrote: > Okay, thanks for warning me. If the binary support will be dropped, > then i can still compile it manually. Compiling a package from source is not maintaining it. Maintaining a package means that there is someone who is looking after bugs and regressions