Bug#925473: tomcat9: sysvinit script missing

[Thorsten Glaser]

Markus Koschany dixit:

>>  (maybe some systemd
>> fan paid him)
>
>^^^
>Such malicious allegations are not helpful.

You should adjust your humour detector.

>>  but this is what is, and that GR outcome is interpreted
>> as Emmanuel being able to block this indefinitely despite nōn-systemd
>> continuing to be a supported way of running Debian (albeit not without
>> UsrMove in bookworm/sid).
>
>The GR outcome was systemd but we support exploring alternatives, not we
>support systemd and sysvinit in any case.

It wasn’t we desupport sysvinit either.

>Systemd is far superior when it comes
[…]

That may very well be, but OUR PRIORITIES ARE OUR USERS AND FREE SOFTWARE
(Debian SC), and if the user requires to run sysvinit but wishes to run
tomcat as well, it is MASSIVELY outside of the scope of the tomcat main‐
tainers to force people to switch the entire way of how the system is set
up, booted and administered!

The security implications are documented in the branch. This is enough.
We sell rope, after all. (Or perhaps more, ahem, politely: PHP is also
still packaged in Debian, despite its security history which is also not
a theoretical problem. Sorry for singling you out, PHP, but I needed an
example.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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