Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 15:26 +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> If this is the case, I'd propose wording like following:
> 
>   [ ... All packages with daemons must provide init.d scripts ...],
>   unless software is only usable, by upstream's design, when pid1 is
>   provided by some alternative init system. In such case, it must Depend
>   on that alternative system (e.g binary package, that provides
>   corresponding version of /sbin/init).

Such a dependency shouldn't be added as one can run software in
containers or so and talk to the outside systemd instance.  Note that
iptables doesn't depend on the linux kernel package either.

Also sysvinit would be an "alternative init system" given the current
default.

Ansgar