Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required
[2019-09-28 08:11] Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed 25 Sep 2019 at 03:43PM +00, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> >> Candidate language attached. It adds "Also excepted are packages which require a
> >> feature of an alternate init system which is not available in SysV-Style
> >> init systems.". Thoughts?
> >
> > Imho, it opens loophole.
> > [...]
>
> Okay, so what we want to express here is the idea that there is an
> exception for a package which uses a feature of systemd, where something
> equivalent cannot be achieved by using a sysvinit script? Such as
> something to access the systemd dbus interface.
>
> I'm not sure how to express that right now, but I think it can be done.
I believe I proposed wording for this down in this thread.
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