[libreplanet-discuss] a question to developers (not packagers) re. systemd vs. sysvinit

[Miles Fidelman]

Hi Folks,

The systemd vs sysvinit topic has popped up again on the Debian list 
(and a few other places), and it occurs to me to wonder what's going on 
from a developer perspective (rather than a distro or packager perspective).

Our own systems are pretty stable, so I haven't looked lately, but my 
sense was that through it all DEVELOPERS were basically ignoring systemd 
and continuing to ship traditional init scripts in tarballs - followed 
by, either (or both):

a) things just run, because systemd recognizes traditional init scripts 
(sort of), and/or,

b) packagers create systemd scripts

Which leads me to wonder the current state of the practice.  So two 
questions to software developers & maintainers (not packagers):

i. What kind of init scripts do you typically include in your code?

ii. To what extent do tooling & libraries support preparing each kind of 
init script?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Thanks much,

Miles Fidelman


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