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

2016-09-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Steve Langasek: The work of revising Debian Policy includes filing a public bug report and discussing the proposed changes with the Debian Developer community via the debian-policy mailing list. Have you done this? Wakey wakey, M. Langasek! You know that the answer is yes, if you are not as

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

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sam Hartman: 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 reference to dependency-b

Fixing the Debian Policy Manual to finally reflect changes from 2014 (was: "Is missing SysV-init support a bug?" on debian-devel)

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Robert Edmonds: The relevant text from the policy manual, §9.11: [...] The Debian Policy Manual never got updated in the wake of the Debian systemd Hoo-Hah. It remains written from the viewpoint that System 5 init and rc are the defaults, and that upstart is a novelty addendum. Several peo

Fixing the Debian Policy Manual to finally reflect changes from 2014 (was: "Is missing SysV-init support a bug?" on debian-devel)

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Robert Edmonds: The relevant text from the policy manual, §9.11: [...] Ansgar Burchardt: Was that changed since the default init system was changed? It pretty much still reads like Policy still assumes that sysvinit is the default init system. It also still mentions upstart in 9.11.1; wil