Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Please do formally propose it and I will give my formal blessing to it. If I understand the process correctly, that looks like this: I propose that point 7 of Iam's seconded proposal be replaced with point 7 as shown here: > 7. Failing to support non-systemd systems when such support is > available, or offered in the form of patches (or packages), > *should* be treated as a release critical bug. For example: init > scripts *must not* be deleted merely because a systemd unit is > provided instead; patches which contribute support for other init > systems (with no substantial effect on systemd installations) > should be filed as bugs with severity `serious'. > This is intended to provide a lightweight but effective path to > ensuring that reasonable support can be provided to Debian users, > even where the maintainer's priorities lie elsewhere. (Invoking > the Technical Committee about individual patches is not sensible.) > If the patches are themselves RC-buggy (in the opinion of, > initially, the maintainer, and ultimately the Release Team) then of > course the bug report should be downgraded or closed. (specifically to add "(with no substantial effect on systemd installations)"). -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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