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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Transitioning from #!/sbin/runscript to,#!/sbin/openrc-run
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:03:06
Message-Id: 5729908A.7020609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Transitioning from #!/sbin/runscript to,#!/sbin/openrc-run by Austin English
1 On 05/04/2016 06:27 AM, Austin English wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > I've been working on the transition from #!/sbin/runscript to
5 > #!/sbin/openrc-run [1],
6 ... and once more I have to ask:
7
8 Is there any reason that Stuff Needs To Change because of a packaging
9 conflict in *debian* where it really doesn't matter at all for us?
10
11 I mean, ok, it's your time, do what you want, but I'm still confused
12 about the benefits of this change ...
13
14 > by starting on the maintainer-needed packages.
15 > That's done (aside from some stabilizations needed, but I'll deal with that
16 > latter). The trouble is that there are roughly 700 packages that need to
17 > be updated, and that's an insane number of bugs to file.
18 >
19 > So, instead, I'm going to give developers to two weeks to update their
20 > initscripts or ask me not to touch it. On/after 2016/05/18, I'll update
21 > initscripts/copyrights, but will leave revbumping to maintainer's discretion.
22 >
23 > Thanks,
24 > Austin
25 >
26 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573846
27 >
28 >

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