Debian drops redis non-systemd support

That is only a true headline if one does not read the actual commit, but rather blindly accepts the incorrect descriptions posted on two discussion fora from a couple of people.

What Chris Lamb of Debian has actually done is removed a Debian-specific mechanism, that runs a set of Debian-specific scripts (using its run-parts tool) that are not rc scripts, from both the systemd service unit and the van Smoorenburg rc file, and not eliminated any support for an init system.

This is stuff that was never in Redis proper and that has always been a Debian addition to Redis, included in the Debian packaging for Redis, and here dropped from that very same packaging and not from Redis proper. It was in fact Chris Lamb that added this Debian-specific mechanism in the first place, and it has only been there since 2015.

* https://github.com/lamby/pkg-redis/commit/e427f8db8954bb7836...

* https://github.com/lamby/pkg-redis/commit/0d7bc7aed4202dba0b...

The van Smoorenburg rc file being touched is not even part of Redis proper, either. The Redis proper one is markedly different, lacking LSB headers and assuming the software to be in /usr/local rather than in /usr .

* https://github.com/lamby/pkg-redis/blob/debian/sid/utils/red...