[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Proposed Release Goal: Add native systemd support to every packaging shipping a sysvinit script

[Bastian Blank]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 06:45:41PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> sysvinit scripts that many of our current packages provide. However,
> when a package ships a native systemd service file in addition to the
> sysvinit script, users enjoy a couple of advantages: they can now easily
> enable/disable the service in a consistent manner using “systemctl
> enable”, daemon output is stored in the journal by default, the process
> tracking and related error reporting works better and users can use
> drop-in snippets to tweak service behavior (e.g. resource limits).

Can you please explain what does not work if the sysv compatibility is
used?  systemd internally defines a complete service definition for each
enabled sysv init script.

Bastian

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