Re: Proposal for next steps for systemd-related policy
Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> I haven't been following the consensus around making service units more
> recommended. Ignoring that discussion, but folding in the GR:
> Maintainers are recommended to install at least one of a service unit or
> init script. Maintainers are encouraged to install an service unit and
> may install an init script.
> But if you've gotten to a point where service units are recommended all
> the time (no service unit but an init script is a bug) then: Maintainers
> are recommended to install a service unit. If maintainers do not
> install a service unit, they are encouraged to install an init script;
> in other situations installing an init script is optional.
Thinking about this some more, and re-reading the text of the GR, this
sounds correct to me as well. I'm not sure that Policy is currently
structured in such a way as to make saying this straightforward, but I'm
taking a look now and will create a bug with a patch for discussion and
review.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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