[DRE-maint] Bug#909630: gitlab: no sysvinit scripts installed or available

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 3:05:32 PM AEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> wrote:
>> appreciated, dmitry: apologies, it catches me off-guard when things
>> don't work.
>
> No worries. It would be nice to introduce init scripts to GitLab.
> With your motivation it looks like it might actually happen. :)

 :)

>> it was just that the decision to rail-road systemd in
>
> Hold on here please. Using systemd as a default init system was well
> balanced, collective decision, thoroughly discussed with all pros and cons
> carefully considered.

 somewhere i have the post-analysis from the voting: i can't remember
off the top of my head, however if you look it up the records of the
votes clearly show that systemd was absolute dead-last in all respects
on all questions asked in the vote.

> You have to respect that.

 if the people who made the decision had respected the actual wishes
of the debian developers who voted, i would be tempted to agree...
however as a *user* i was not consulted about the consequences of the
decision... so i *genuinely* can't agree.

 i can *understand* why the decision was made...

> There is nothing unethical in choosing technically superior init system that
> suits most GNU/Linux distributions. We have made a choice and moved on -
> what's done is done and there is no point complaining about it.
>
>
>> (which is software that itself is being developed incredibly
>> unethically)
>
> I do not understand what do you mean.

 it's a long, long story, that takes quite a lot of time to explain
(and that's one of the problems: most people simply don't have time to
go over this, comprehensively).  perhaps it might be best to take this
offline from this bugreport, if you're interested to do so?

l.