Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Please consider changing the language in chapter 9.3.3 "Interfacing with the initscript system" from "should" to "must". Interpretting it as a strict requirement has been the way I've understood most people to look at it for a long time already. I don't think there's any valid reason for circumventing the administrators policy-rc.d setup, but while weeding out the few remaining violators people are unwilling to fix their packages stating the reason being that policy doesn't say must. The wording change is simply s/should/must/ (in both sentences). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
