Drop upstart from fedora?

Lukáš Nykrýn lnykryn at redhat.com
Tue Apr 24 13:35:29 UTC 2012


Jon Ciesla píše v Út 24. 04. 2012 v 07:47 -0500:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 07:36 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:33 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> because upstart was in fedora 15 replaced by systemd, I don't see any
> >> >> use for it. Almost no package provides job file for it and classical
> >> >> init scripts should be also gone and we were also talking about drop
> >> >> related stuff from initscripts package.
> >> >> Is there any argument why keep upstart in fedora or is here somebody who
> >> >> want to take it over?
> >> >
> >> > I'd say just kill it ... otoh we did ship initng in the past too so as
> >> > long as there is a maintainer ....
> >>
> >> There's really nothing stopping anyone from using it if they want.  I
> >> don't see a compelling argument to keep or drop it.
> >
> > I sounds like Lukáš wants to stop maintaining it, so I'd say the best
> > solution here would be for him to orphan it. If someone else wants to
> > see it live on, they can take the package over. Otherwise, it will
> > eventually get reaped as part of the natural progression.
> 
> +1
It is not exactly, that I don't want to maintain it, but we are going to
drop support for it in initscripts, so there it will be necessary to
move some scripts to upstart package or some subpackage and I want to be
sure if it is worth to do it. 




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