Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

package: debian-policy
severity: normal

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.