Michael Biebl

With the stretch development cycle being well underway, we look at what has been happening over the last year since the jessie release with systemd as our default init system and what the Debian systemd maintainers team is and has been working on. We give an update on our plans regarding the stretch release and what is going on upstream.

Wheezy is the first release of Debian with systemd. We are going to give an overview of systemd itself, the current state of systemd in Debian and what our plans for the next release cycle are. In addition, we'll cover what packagers should know about systemd.

Table of contents for the talk:

• What is systemd (and why does it exist)
  • service management
  • components and how they work together: init, udev, journal
• systemd in Wheezy
  • what works
  • what doesn't work
  • lessons learned
• systemd in Jessie
  • policy and helpers
  • cleanups in init scripts
    • systemd-to-initscript converter
  • udev for non-systemd systems
• systemd for packagers

Other people: Tollef Fog Heen