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Bug#1035733: debian -policy: packages must not use dpkg-divert to override default systemd configuraton files



On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 08:19:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I would like to add more documentation like this around systemd-related
> things to Policy because systemd is complicated and has a lot of options,
> so people who aren't deeply familiar with it will easily miss best
> practices in its reams of very good but overwhelming documentation, and
> Debian should be opinionated about steering people towards best practices
> for our primary init system, just as we were very opinionated about how to
> write init scripts for sysvinit.
[...]
> I definitely agree that Policy should have a whole section devoted to
> systemd and its configuration files, but I don't want to try to boil the
> ocean in one bug.  But yes, we should be working towards that, IMO.

yes! (to everything in said email.) thank you.


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