On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

* 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

Am Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:52:31 +0100 schrieb Tom Gundersen :

Unless there are any objections, I'll put this up soon so I can start closing bugs without feeling bad about it ;-)

-t

+1 -Andy

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.

It would be great if maintainers who are going to drop the rc scripts from their package would notify me, so I can keep then in a rc-scripts package as discussed previously (similar to what was done with systemd) Lukas

Le 2012-11-08 10:03, Pierre Schmitz a écrit :

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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. It would be great if maintainers who are going to drop the rc scripts from their package would notify me, so I can keep then in a rc-scripts package as discussed previously (similar to what was done with systemd)

Lukas Thomas suggested to have a git repo which would contain all those

Am 07.11.2012 08:59, schrieb Lukas Jirkovsky: scripts. Everytime a TU or DEV removes a rc script he can commit it there.

+1, good idea

Good idea, +1. To find deleted files that ends with .rc: svn log -v | grep '^ *D.*/trunk/.*\.rc$' D /fail2ban/trunk/fail2ban.rc D /multipath-tools/trunk/multipathd.rc D /virtualbox/trunk/vbox-service.rc D /oidentd/trunk/oidentd.rc D /ufw/trunk/ufw.rc D /backuppc/trunk/backuppc-httpd.rc D /oss/trunk/oss.rc D /tor/trunk/tor.rc D /pulseaudio/trunk/pulseaudio.rc This does not catch every single deleted rc script, but may perhaps catch one or two that should have been submitted to the rc git repo, in the future, but weren't. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth xyproto / TU

Am 23.01.2013 20:15, schrieb Sébastien Luttringer:

Hello,

I've cleaned all packages where I maintain rc scripts. Lukas J. has moved the legacy to a community[1] package[2].

FYI for Lukas: I removed initscripts support from openvpn, the scripts are still in SVN.