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Bug#911165: debian-policy: drop requirement to ship sysvinit init script with same name



Andreas Henriksson wrote:

> It seems obvious to me that the above policy snippet was written in a
> time when the universe revolved around sysvinit. In current day and age
> sysvinit itself would be an "Alternate init system". We could update the
> snippet to say that any package providing support for an alternate init
> system must also provide systemd units if we wanted to modernize this
> part of policy.

I don't follow: why would we need such a requirement, given that
systemd knows how to execute init scripts?


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