This proposal asks that Policy mandate a location to which init scripts
must log verbose errors. The original proposal was made in 2002 and there
was little subsequent discussion in 2003. This Policy proposal is also
not currently widely implemented in the archive and hence would be a
change ahead of current practice.
I'm rejecting this proposal due to lack of consensus and lack of support
by current practices in the archive. This is a soft rejection, meaning
that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to step
forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug. However,
I would encourage anyone looking to champion this proposal to introduce a
simple facility for packages with init scripts to do something along these
lines (which can be done today without a Policy change) and then see how
much adoption across the archive can be achieved prior to a formal Policy
change.