Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>> Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:

>> I think we can proceed to add a Policy "should" for including a systemd
>> unit file unless someone raises objections pretty soon here.  So far, I
>> haven't seen any objections to the basic idea.

> Okay.  Anything further I should do except wait?

I'll take a look at the wording hopefully this weekend.

>> We're doing some of that already even by introducing a "should," and
>> there's some argument to be made for starting with a Lintian warning
>> instead, but I'm not inclined to be that conservative here, mostly
>> because we're long-overdue for saying something, and I think the should
>> is fairly mild in this case.

> I think there is already a lintian warning:

>   https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script.html

Oh!  I should have checked rather than assuming.  It would ideally be nice
to make it a warning rather than a pedantic tag before we add it to
Policy, but meh, and the count of tags isn't all that high.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>