Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

2016-08-26 Thread Sam Hartman
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 re

Bug#835490: debian-policy: remove references to upstart

2016-08-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Upstart is no longer part of Debian[1] nor actively maintained upstream. Policy should drop references to it as an alternative init system. I've attached a patch to remove section 9.11.1 (actually to replace it with an empty stub to ensure there is no sect