[arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
 
> I intend to maintain initscripts in the official repos as long as this
> makes sense. However, for this to be viable, I think we would need at
> least one capable and active initscripts developer who is interested
> in helping out and who uses sysvinit/initscripts as their main init
> system. In the long-run it would make sense for such a person to take
> over maintainership of initscripts. Anyone interested, please join
> arch-projects and post reviews, suggestions and patches :-)

A question about this: apart from changes such as those required
to accomodate systemd or the /lib to /usr/lib migration, _what_ is
actually involved in the day-to-day maintenance of initscripts ?
In other words, what sort of events would mean they need to be
modified ? 

Ciao,

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