Bug#1051582: Policy 9.3 (Starting system services) is largely obsolete

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

    Russ> I therefore would like to propose a first: I think Policy
    Russ> should simply say that any package that provides a system
    Russ> service should use debhelper and rely on dh_installsystemd to
    Russ> put the appropriate commands in its maintainer scripts.  (We
    Russ> can then discuss whether we should do the same for init
    Russ> scripts and dh_installinit, although its stanzas are simpler.)

For a variety of reasons, I support this.


--Sam