Fixing the Debian Policy Manual to finally reflect changes from 2014 (was: "Is missing SysV-init support a bug?" on debian-devel)

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com>]

Robert Edmonds:

> The relevant text from the policy manual, §9.11: [...]
The Debian Policy Manual never got updated in the wake of the Debian 
systemd Hoo-Hah.  It remains written from the viewpoint that System 5 
init and rc are the defaults, and that upstart is a novelty addendum.  
Several people in 2014 publicly proposed starting a Policy Manual 
revision.  They never finished, to my knowledge, and their proposals 
remain part-done (to this day, as far as I know, although I haven't 
re-checked since 2015).  I didn't make a public announcement, and just 
got on and did a rewrite.  (-:

It is here, complete with SGML patch: 
https://jdebp.eu./Proposals/DebianPolicy/