Chris Carr<rantingman@gmail.com> writes:
Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or
service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but
neither seems to contain discussions about the risks of replacing
perfectly good defaults with significantly flawed ones.
debian-devel contained *extensive* discussions about dependency-based boot
and about insserv. I'm not sure how you could have missed them. Having
followed those discussions at the time, I'm pretty confident that the
switch was supported by the consensus of the people who chose to
participate in those discussions.