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Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.



On Monday, June 26, 2023 2:02:24 PM EDT Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 01:22:38PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > Less prone to errors than a manual process might be to watch
> > > automatically where legacy startup scripts disappear anyway; it's not
> > > that complicated to do. People tend to forget things.
> > 
> > That sounds reasonable.  It might be sufficient for the policy discussion
> > to say that maintainers who drop sysv init scripts should file a bug
> > against orphan- sysvinit-scripts with the final version of the provided
> > init attached and which lists the lowest version that won't include it
> > (so that orphan-sysvinit- scripts can Replaces << that version).
> 
> Automatically is clearly not the same as "file a bug".  It is not a
> useful way to ask hundreds of people to do things if you can do it on
> your own.

Are hundreds of people dropping init scripts?  I'm curious how you measure 
that?

Scott K

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