Control: retitle -1 debian-policy: [9.11] remove requirement that alternative inits must support sysvinit scripts
>> 9.11 states: >> >> +--- >> > Alternative init implementations must support running SysV init >> > scripts as described at System run levels and init.d scripts for >> > compatibility. >> +--- Thinking a bit more about this, I think this requirement should just be removed from Policy. It should be left to the individual communities interested in a particular init system how much compatibility with sysvinit is useful for them. As an example, it might also be possible to just ignore sysvinit scripts and use just init-specific jobs. Or only use information from systemd .service files. Or only start services from a daemontools-style service tree. This might provide less coverage for packages in the archive, but if the people using the init are fine with that then I don't see why Policy should forbid it. That would pretty much "solve" all questions I raised (except for switching between init systems, but that's a different problem). (Note that this is just about the requirement that alternative init systems must be able to run/understand sysvinit scripts; it's not about whether packages must/should provided sysvinit scripts which is more controversial.) Ansgar
