Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

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

Ian Jackson writes ("multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal"):
> I hereby propose the following resolution:
> 
>    1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie.
> 
>    2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the
>       foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities
>       and code remain healthy.  Nothing outside of an init system's
>       implementation may require a specific init system to be pid 1.
> 
> Please send comments, or formal amendment proposals, by 2014-01-28
> 17:00 UTC.  I will call a vote on some version(s) then.

I would like to make a procedural comment here.  I think it is rather
wrong to be voting on the interlinked questions of support for
multiple systems, and what the default should be, in separate
resolutions.  TC members should have the ability to rank "only X"
against "X and others" in a different order to "only Y" vs "Y and
others".

However, Bdale's approach has meant that this is the only way forward
for me.

Ian.