Hi, Joey Hess: > Luca Falavigna wrote: > > The Technical Committee > > decided not to decide about the question of "coupling" i.e. whether > > other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. > > The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: > 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. > http://bugs.debian.org/746715 > > So, your proposal actually overrules this decision of the tech > committe. > Really? To me, "For the record, the TC expects" does not introduce a ruling.
It seems to be, rather, a strongly-worded but informal declaration how the TC is likely to rule, should a maintainer fail to meet this particular expectation. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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