@@ -83,21 +83,34 @@ Installing a Distribution Package
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8484
8585Some Linux distributions offer a version of Supervisor that is installable
86- through the system package manager. These packages may include
87- distribution-specific changes to Supervisor.
88-
89- .. note ::
90-
91- Some of these packages can lag considerably behind the official
92- release version. For example, Ubuntu 12.04 (released April 2012)
93- offers a package based on Supervisor 3.0a8 (released January 2010).
86+ through the system package manager. These packages are made by third parties,
87+ not the Supervisor developers, and often include distribution-specific changes
88+ to Supervisor.
9489
9590Use the package management tools of your distribution to check availability;
9691e.g. on Ubuntu you can run ``apt-cache show supervisor ``, and on CentOS
9792you can run ``yum info supervisor ``.
9893
99- Packaged Supervisor will normally already be integrated into the service
100- management infrastructure of your distribution.
94+ A feature of distribution packages of Supervisor is that they will usually
95+ include integration into the service management infrastructure of the
96+ distribution, e.g. allowing ``supervisord `` to automatically start when
97+ the system boots.
98+
99+ .. note ::
100+
101+ Distribution packages of Supervisor can lag considerably behind the
102+ official Supervisor packages released to PyPI. For example, Ubuntu
103+ 12.04 (released April 2012) offers a package based on Supervisor 3.0a8
104+ (released January 2010).
105+
106+ .. note ::
107+
108+ Users have reported that the distribution package of Supervisor for
109+ Ubuntu 16.04 has different behavior than previous versions. On Ubuntu
110+ 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04, installing the package will configure the system
111+ to start ``supervisord `` when the system boots. On Ubuntu 16.04, this is
112+ not done. See `Ubuntu Bug #1594740 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/supervisor/+bug/1594740 >`_
113+ for more information.
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102115Installing via pip
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