package: debian-policy severity: normal Hi. As part of reviewing an issue for the technical committee, I just read policy section 9.3 in its entirety.
Section 9.3.1 really seems to be showing its age. That section covers runlevels and the sequencing numbers after S and K in rc.d links without reference to dependency-based boot ordering, init systems other than sysinit, etc. In an ideal world I'd encourage that section to be updated to talk about how boot ordering works on modern Debian. Absent that, I'd recommend significantly trimming the section to just cover the fact that there are run levels and that there are these numbers after S and K and not go into what the numbers after S and K mean.
