Heads Up: FESCo is considering to block packages providing sysvinit services without systemd unit

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 12:41:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> On the today's FESCo meeting we discussed the request to move forward
> the conversion of the sysvinit scripts to systemd units in Fedora 17.
>
> The packages which ship sysvinit script but do not ship systemd unit
> according to the Fedora packaging guidelines violate this rule:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files
>
> Eventual blocking of the packages that violate this Fedora packaging
> rule was not yet definitively decided upon, but we agreed that the
> Fedora package maintainers should be warned that such blocking might
> happen before the Fedora 17 Alpha release.

Such a blocking would be just wrong ... as long as the packages *work*
there is no reason to do that.
I am all for encouraging maintainers to port there stuff but this is a
bit too much.


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