Bug#1051582: Policy 9.3 (Starting system services) is largely obsolete
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:21:56AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> writes:
>
> Santiago> 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.)
>
> Santiago> Hello. I don't like this approach, and I believe we are
> Santiago> mixing two different things here. One of them is our
> Santiago> ability (or lack thereof) of policy to catch up with real
> Santiago> development done elsewhere. Another one is the fact that
> Santiago> policy does not mandate any given implementation.
>
> The question in my mind is whether it is valuable to support multiple
> implementations, and I think the answer is no.
But we do: we support debhelper 13.11.4 and debhelper 13.11.6.
Even if we support a single implementation, we still need to know what is
expected of it.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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