On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Pierre Schmitz
* Publish an announcement with the said dates and a link to a migration guide * Support for initscripts can be dropped e.g. end of December. After that packages may drop support; but not before. * rc.d scripts and other related files should be removed by end of January. This makes it easier for third party repos to provide a package containing all the rc scripts. Similar to what we had before systemd got officially supported.
What do you think?
I agree that we should make an announcement. My suggestion would be something along these lines: "As systemd is now the default init system, Arch Linux is receiving minimal testing on sysvinit/initscripts systems. Due to a lack of resources and interest, sysvinit/initscripts-specific bugs may now be closed as WONT FIX. We therefore strongly encourage all users to migrate to systemd as soon as possible: <link to guide>. For the time being, sysvinit/initscripts support will remain in the official repositories, unless otherwise stated. As of January 2013, sysvinit/initscripts support may be removed from individual packages without further notice." As to forcibly removing all the rc scripts by a certain date, I guess we could get back to that later once we see how things pan out? I'd be fine with doing it, but don't see the urgency. -t