Bill Myers <[email protected]> writes:

> I think the issue of whether packages can depend on a specific init to
> be pid 1 is essentially identical to whether packages can depend on a
> specific kernel (Linux vs FreeBSD vs Hurd) to be running.

> I'm not sure what the exact Debian policy is for that, but just copying
> that seems to me the most natural decision.

It's conceptually similar, but since kernels are tied directly to a Debian
architecture, it's easier to handle the kernel case using our existing
infrastructure.  There just isn't a binary package for that architecture
if it doesn't work with that kernel, and most of the problematic cases,
such as switching between init systems, don't apply in an analogous way.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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