Bug#727708: init system discussion status

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Uoti Urpala writes ("Bug#727708: init system discussion status"):
> There are two different kinds of dependencies: dependencies expressed in
> package metadata, and functional dependencies (as in whether the package
> does anything useful with another init). Your earlier wording sounds
> like it was talking about the former ("installable") and Ian's proposal
> definitely was (explicitly mentioning package fields), but the "fully
> working" you use now sounds like it's about the latter.

Thanks for pointing this out.  My proposal is too weak in this
respect.  I intended to make the stronger statement.

> As the systemd-ui example shows, [...]

I think systemd-ui is part of the systemd init system so falls into
the exception.  Of course that means that nothing else should depend
(functionally or in package dependencies) on it.

Ian.