On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:07:03PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > [0] to that end, orphan-sysvinit-scripts is in NEW,
Glad you're taking that route. I had been thinking of other things to suggest that would make your life easier while allowing maintainers to drop init scripts if they so desire, but I couldn't really come up with anything better than that (except for a few very convoluted things that don't really improve the situation). > and while I hope your ruling will not result in a bonfire of perfectly > good init scripts, I hope that maintainers who decide to ditch them > will let us know so we can add them there Maybe talk to debian-policy to come up with some wording to be added to either the developer's reference or policy that discourages dropping init scripts, but encourages talking to the maintainers of orphan-sysvinit-scripts if for whatever reason it ends up being necessary? -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
