Debian policy on alternate init systems
The Debian Policy Manual currently supports alternate init systems, and
mentions upstart as an example. sysvinit scripts will continue to be
required per policy. I got the opposite impression from the TC debate,
where part of the justification (IIRC) for systemd was avoiding sysvinit
maintenance. Since the policy remains, that argument did not prevail,
even if their choice did, if I'm reading this correctly.
The relevant policies are 1.1: "Packages that do not conform to the
guidelines denoted by must (or required) will generally not be
considered acceptable for the Debian distribution." and 9.11: "any
package integrating with other init systems must also be
backwards-compatible with sysvinit by providing a SysV-style init script
..."
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html
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