[systemd-bugs] [Bug 77031] New: Adopt a rudimentary 'initctl' wrapper as the merge commit to end-of-life Upstart

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77031

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 77031
          Assignee: systemd-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Adopt a rudimentary 'initctl' wrapper as the merge
                    commit to end-of-life Upstart
        QA Contact: systemd-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: derek.p.moore at gmail.com
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: general
           Product: systemd

'systemctl' is an annoyingly over-long to type.

'service' was tab-completable at 'servi' on most systems.

'systemctl' is not tab-completable until 'systemc' on most systems.

'initctl' is tab-completable at 'initc' on most systems, in line with the
convenience of 'service'.

'systemctl' and 'initctl' have several commonalities in their command-line
argument structure, unlike 'service'.

A minimal wrapper would appease the hordes that will be coming over from
Upstart and could benefit those of us who cringe every time we have to type
'systemctl' or who constantly mix up the argument ordering between 'systemctl'
or 'service' regardless of which one we're trying to call.

An 'initctl' wrapper should be smarter, more usable, and more feature-rich than
the 'service' wrapper which appears to be an afterthought with debug-mode
standard output, but it need not implement the entire initctl man page. Heck,
it'd be happy if it were just a symlink to systemctl that came with the systemd
distribution files.

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