[systemd-devel] Dropping SysV init script support? (was: systemd prerelease 254-rc3)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 16:30, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM systemd tag bot
> <donotreply-systemd-tag at refi64.com> wrote:
> >
> >         * Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and will be
> >           removed in a future release. Please make sure to update your software
> >           *now* to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy
> >           System V script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
> >
>
> What's driving this change? Already distributions have to manage the
> code that integrates the sysv init script support into systemd (such
> as chkconfig(8) and debian's systemd-sysv-install for update-rc.d(8)).
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the sysv support code actually *in*
> systemd is mostly around the systemd-sysv-generator that creates
> transient units to express dependencies. There's also the small bits
> in systemctl(1) itself for triggering the generation of those units.
>
> Is this something that could be externalized into a separate project
> and framework like systemd-initctl was? Perhaps it could even be a
> pattern for others to implement translation for their own things to
> systemd (e.g. runit, et al).

Why not just add a unit where it's missing? It's been a decade or so,
most things should be in place now