On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 08:19:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > In general, policy proscription are only useful when the description of > > a better mechanism is provided. But there is no place for that in this > > section. > > I'm not sure I understand this statement, since describing a better > mechanism is exactly the point of that language about systemd. We link > directly to those better mechanisms (masking, drop-ins, and, for > alternatives, aliases).
What I meant was that this section in not the right place for systemd or other software configuration detail, because nobody will look for systemd configuration detail in the dpkg-divert section. > I definitely agree that Policy should have a whole section devoted to > systemd and its configuration files, but I don't want to try to boil the > ocean in one bug. But yes, we should be working towards that, IMO. Yes that what I wanted to say. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
