systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> > I think that's precisely the concern.  In the event that F14 goes back
> > to upstart, the final release will use a configuration that may not have
> > received much testing.  If we want to claim that it's safe to switch
> > back to upstart after beta, we need to be testing that configuration
> > now, along with the systemd configuration.
> 
> well, feel free. It's still installable. It's unchanged from the last
> five releases, though, and we didn't have any particular problems with
> the init system in any of those, so I'm not waking up at nights worrying
> about it breaking.

for clarity - no, there's nothing magic about five releases ago. Five
was a Random Rhetorical Number. :) I don't know the last time we had a
major init system change, whenever it was, I wasn't around.
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