On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:47:15PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 10/9/23 a las 4:09, Russ Allbery escribió: > > I therefore would like to propose a first: I think Policy should simply > > say that any package that provides a system service should use debhelper > > and rely on dh_installsystemd to put the appropriate commands in its > > maintainer scripts. (We can then discuss whether we should do the same > > for init scripts and dh_installinit, although its stanzas are simpler.) > > Hello. I don't like this approach, and I believe we are mixing two different > things > here. One of them is our ability (or lack thereof) of policy to catch up with > real development done elsewhere. Another one is the fact that policy does > not mandate any given implementation.
I agree. The issue is that we need to document what dh_installsystemd should do, otherwise we will not be able to distinguish between bug in dh_installsystemd and intended behaviour, and we will end up freezing dh_installsystemd to avoid introducing problem by breaking incidental interfaces. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
