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Tom Gundersen

1 Feb 2013 1 Feb '13

11:18 p.m.

Hi guys, Several devs have been asking me to officially drop initscripts, so I thought I'd bring it here. As per our announcement [0], the rc scripts have been unsupported for one month now, and we have slowly started removing them (which means stuff will have started breaking for people still using sysvinit). Despite several people showing interest in taking over the rc scripts and initscripts and keeping it going, nothing has come of it in terms of packages or announcements, so it appears to me that the necessary manpower/motivation is not there (as I mentioned before [1], a replacement should really have been in place before the end of December to provide continuity). To make our communication with our users clear I suggest we drop initscripts from our repositories, (re)announce that sysvinit is now unsupported and start dropping the rc scripts from the individual packages whenever they are rebuilt. This is unfortunate for users stuck on very old kernels. However, I don't think it is responsible to give the impression that we are supporting an init system that is not getting any kind of testing, and with no one to take care of it going forward. Cheers, Tom [0]: https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-initscripts-support/ [1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024347....

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Tom Gundersen

2 Feb 2 Feb

12:22 a.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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To make our communication with our users clear I suggest we drop initscripts

I guess we should also drop 'sysvinit' and only keep 'sysvinit-tools' to avoid any confusion. -t

Allan McRae

3 Feb 3 Feb

11:15 a.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On 02/02/13 10:22, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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To make our communication with our users clear I suggest we drop initscripts

I guess we should also drop 'sysvinit' and only keep 'sysvinit-tools' to avoid any confusion.

No objections. Will you make a TODO list to remove the remaining files in /etc/rc.d? Allan

Pierre Schmitz

11:18 a.m.

Am 03.02.2013 12:15, schrieb Allan McRae:

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On 02/02/13 10:22, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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To make our communication with our users clear I suggest we drop initscripts

I guess we should also drop 'sysvinit' and only keep 'sysvinit-tools' to avoid any confusion.

No objections. Will you make a TODO list to remove the remaining files in /etc/rc.d?

Maybe have a look at /etc/conf.d as well so we finally get consistent here. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Tom Gundersen

11:35 p.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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No objections. Will you make a TODO list to remove the remaining files in /etc/rc.d?

Maybe have a look at /etc/conf.d as well so we finally get consistent here.

Will do both. I suggest the following announcement (feel free to improve the wording): ===8<======================= Final sysvinit deprecation warning As announced previously, initscripts are no longer receiving any testing and support has been dropped from various packages. Any users still using it should switch to systemd. initscripts, sysvinit and the various rc scripts are being removed from the repositories to avoid any confusion about their status. ===8<======================= -t

Allan McRae

11:45 p.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On 04/02/13 09:35, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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No objections. Will you make a TODO list to remove the remaining files in /etc/rc.d?

Maybe have a look at /etc/conf.d as well so we finally get consistent here.

Will do both.

I suggest the following announcement (feel free to improve the wording):

===8<======================= Final sysvinit deprecation warning

As announced previously, initscripts are no longer receiving any testing and support has been dropped from various packages. Any users still using it should switch to systemd.

initscripts, sysvinit and the various rc scripts are being removed from the repositories to avoid any confusion about their status. ===8<=======================

Looks fine. Allan

Dan McGee

4 Feb 4 Feb

2 a.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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No objections. Will you make a TODO list to remove the remaining files in /etc/rc.d?

Maybe have a look at /etc/conf.d as well so we finally get consistent here.

Will do both.

I suggest the following announcement (feel free to improve the wording):

===8<======================= Final sysvinit deprecation warning

As announced previously, initscripts are no longer receiving any testing and support has been dropped from various packages. Any users still using it should switch to systemd.

initscripts, sysvinit and the various rc scripts are being removed from the repositories to avoid any confusion about their status. ===8<=======================

* s/announced previously/previously announced/ * still using them (instead of 'it') -Dan

Tom Gundersen

8:38 a.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

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* s/announced previously/previously announced/ * still using them (instead of 'it')

Thanks. Announcement posted. Will create todo and remove packages sometime today. Cheers, Tom

Lukas Jirkovsky

2 Feb 2 Feb

10:53 a.m.

New subject: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Finally dropping initscripts and rc scripts

On 1 February 2013 23:18, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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Hi guys,

Several devs have been asking me to officially drop initscripts, so I thought I'd bring it here.

As per our announcement [0], the rc scripts have been unsupported for one month now, and we have slowly started removing them (which means stuff will have started breaking for people still using sysvinit).

Despite several people showing interest in taking over the rc scripts and initscripts and keeping it going, nothing has come of it in terms of packages or announcements, so it appears to me that the necessary manpower/motivation is not there (as I mentioned before [1], a replacement should really have been in place before the end of December to provide continuity).

To make our communication with our users clear I suggest we drop initscripts from our repositories, (re)announce that sysvinit is now unsupported and start dropping the rc scripts from the individual packages whenever they are rebuilt.

This is unfortunate for users stuck on very old kernels. However, I don't think it is responsible to give the impression that we are supporting an init system that is not getting any kind of testing, and with no one to take care of it going forward.

Cheers,

Tom

[0]: https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-initscripts-support/ [1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024347....

Hello, I know I promised that I will keep the initscripts working. I expected that I will have enough free time to maintain them, but so far I didn't have enough free time. I'm really sorry for not keeping my promise. I feel very bad about that. And unfortunately I have to use laptop with systemd, because I don't have access to my main development machine (that uses initscripts), too. I made a package [1] which contains all the initscripts from packages maintained by seblu some time ago. This package does most of the work automatically (it installs all .rc files to rc.d and all .conf files to conf.d). I wanted to release the package whenever a package is updated with dropped initscript. I'll move this package to AUR, where anyone can pick it up and maintain it. Maybe I'll restart my efforts when I get a regular access to my development machine. I'm sorry for that, Lukas [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/sysvinit-scripts/...

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