On Sun, 09 Feb 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > I hereby call for votes on the following resolution: > > The init system decision is limited to selecting a default > initsystem for jessie. We expect that Debian will continue to > support multiple init systems for the foreseeable future; we > continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems. > > Therefore, for jessie and later releases, we exercise our power to > set technical policy (Constitution 6.1.1): > > Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require > a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is > tolerable. > > Maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches > to enable improved interoperation with various init systems.
I vote FD. I think something along these lines should be done, but (as stated previously), I believe that the third paragraph places work on the maintainer which does not need to be there, and additionally does not limit this restriction to the release of jessie. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org