On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:18:29AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, March 25, 2019 02:17:15 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > > Please remove the tomcat8 package from testing and unstable (not
> > > experimental). This package has been replaced by tomcat9 for Buster.
> >
> > Please don’t, tomcat9 has no sysvinit script, and you did
> > not like any of my suggestions for it.
>
> Isn't one required by policy 9.11 (must is in the second paragraph of the
> main
> part).
That's just policy not being updated for whatever reason. The CTTE declared
that the default init system is systemd (#727708) and later decided in
#746715 the following:
---
For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support
the multiple available init systems in Debian. That includes
merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing
support without a compelling reason.
---
IOW, there's no hard requirement and the Debian Java team has compelling
reasons (very limited workforce etc.)
But most importantly, the removal bug against tomcat8 is still valid by
itself, buster must not be released with it. Please don't let random
init system discussions derail this.
Cheers,
Moritz
