Comment 2 for bug 1585375

The no real benefit you speak of is a legible environment with minimal
cruft for users. Nevermind the transition seems to be backwards
incompatible in some cases.
On May 25, 2016 6:01 AM, "Robie Basak" <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Ubuntu, we focus on one init system (systemd), but in Debian users
> can use one of many init systems.
>
> Since Ubuntu packages are derived from Debian packages, it is expected
> that we will still ship init scripts for other init systems even though
> they aren't used.
>
> I don't think it makes sense to drop the init scripts for other systems
> as this would result in quite a big delta in Ubuntu to maintain for no
> real benefit. So I'm marking this bug Invalid for memcached, because in
> the general case we will not remove the init.d script in a delta for
> memcached packaging in Ubuntu.
>
> If there are more specific issues with this init.d script in particular,
> please make a case for those. But it would probably be better to make
> the case in Debian, since a patch in Debian against the init.d scripts
> would be more useful since we don't use them in Ubuntu.
>
> ** Changed in: memcached (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
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> Title:
> memcached init script deprecated
>
> Status in memcached package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> /etc/initd/memcached is not respected yet its still in the package. It
> has several misleading comments and it shouldn't exist.
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