On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:15:35AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Sam Hartman: > >Hi. As part of reviewing an issue for the technical committee, I just read > >policy section 9.3 in its entirety. > >Section 9.3.1 really seems to be showing its age. That section covers > >runlevels and the sequencing numbers after S and K in rc.d links without > >reference to dependency-based boot ordering, init systems other than > >sysinit, etc. > >In an ideal world I'd encourage that section to be updated to talk about > >how boot ordering works on modern Debian. > >Absent that, I'd recommend significantly trimming the section to just > >cover the fact that there are run levels and that there are these numbers > >after S and K and not go into what the numbers after S and K mean. > This has just come up on the Debian Developers' mailing list, where Ansgar > Burchardt also thought of filing a bug. > The work has actually been done, if you want it. Long since. The work of revising Debian Policy includes filing a public bug report and discussing the proposed changes with the Debian Developer community via the debian-policy mailing list. Have you done this? If not, the work is not "done". But I would invite you to engage in this process and help to improve Policy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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