[needs-packaging] systemd

[Eric Appleman]

"systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit."

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd

I imagine Ubuntu will adopt this sooner or later to replace upstart.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This is already in Debian experimental. It can be sync'd at the beginning of the O cycle or you can file for a Feature Freeze exception:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

In the caseo of systemd, would a needs-packaging imply a call for adoption ?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

No. needs-packaging bugs are just to get things in the archive.

On 03/16/2011 10:45 AM, Eric Appleman wrote:
> In the caseo of systemd, would a needs-packaging imply a call for
> adoption ?
>

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

SystemD package is in Debian Testing since July 2011, I don't understand why this package isn't included into Ubuntu 12.04 :(

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

systemd is available in Debian, but it is on the Ubuntu sync blacklist: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/sync-blacklist.txt
> systemd # keybuk, an ubuntu machine has upstart; avoid sync this from Debian

Should this be removed from the blacklist, or is that reason valid?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm going to go ahead and mark this bug fixed.

For Ubuntu 13.04, systemd-services (containing hostnamed, localed, and timedated) is installed by default. For 13.10 we expect that logind will also be installed by default. Those services contain much of the user-visible parts of systemd. As for using systemd by itself as the default init, that is WONTFIX for the forseeable future as the Ubuntu Foundations Team use upstart instead.