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



Hello,

On Wed 25 Sep 2019 at 02:33PM -04, David Steele wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
>>
>> Well, the Policy Editors currently see no consensus; so to change it one
>> would need to convince them, involve the tech-ctte or a GR.
>>
>
> The Policy needs to either explicitly discourage the use of
> systemd-specific features, or recognize the sysv-init incompatibility of
> packages that use them,
>
> For my part, I have no interest in participating in the init wars. I just
> want clear guidance on how to avoid an AUTORM-level bug report.
> Right now the Policy is pretty much telling me to add an init script
> with calls to systemctl. I'd like a different answer.

I think we can achieve this.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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