On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A question about this: apart from changes such as those required > to accomodate systemd or the /lib to /usr/lib migration, _what_ is > actually involved in the day-to-day maintenance of initscripts ? > In other words, what sort of events would mean they need to be > modified ? Bugs. Changes to related packages (mkinitcpio, udev, lvm, mdadm, cryptsetup, util-linux, filesystem). You'd probably want to maintain compat with the systemd config files (so you'd not also need to duplicate all the documentation/wiki) so whenever they are extended support should probably be added to initscripts (as we now use the systemd tools this might be a rare occurrence). In short: One would just have to make sure to avoid general bit-rot as with any software. -t
