On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require > > a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is > > tolerable. > > For instance, consider a gnome-session-systemd package which uses > systemd user sessions, provided in parallel with a compatibility > package that does not. Or, consider the systemd-shim package. As > written, this clause would prohibit such alternative packages, even > though *collectively* the packages satisfy this requirement.
Using "software" instead of "packages" sidesteps this problem, I think, since that avoids the technical details of how such compatibility is implemented. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men who send young men out to die. -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
