Hi there

[KatolaZ]

Hi All,

thanks a lot for creating this list :)

Just a couple of points:

1) as you know, at Devuan we are willing to help with/take over
maintenance of sysvinit in Debian. I am currently reviewing the state
of things (including bug reports and new development upstream), and
will post here a report and a plan ASAP. I guess most of the
complaints are indeed not on sysvinit but on the scripts provided by
maintainers of other packages. We have had such issues with zfs (which
lacks proper sysvinit scripts), and the matter has been escalated
upstream (Debian) and will be apparently fixed in zfs 0.8*. Other
packages have had similar issues recently.

2) elogind is already working in Devuan ascii, and all the desktop
things seem to be fine with that. Please notice that the ceres
(unstable) version is lagging behind, mainly because most of the
development and bug fixing happened in ascii, to enable us to release
it sooner. But we are coming back to the proper
experimental/unstable/testing cycle now.

You might have noticed that the trick is to let elogind Provides:
libpam-systemd, and a few more hacks around that. Unfortunately,
supporting both elogind and consolekit proved a bit tricky, and
required to provide two sets of polkit-1-* packages (one for the
elogind backend and one for the consolekit one). But it should be
possible to simplify stuff there.

3) You might also have noticed that ascii has eudev working just fine.

4) We are working to include as many init/supervisors choices at
install time as possible. Currently ASCII has also openrc, but the
idea is to add more options in Beowulf.

5) please feel free to give feedback on the stuff above.

Thanks again

KatolaZ

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