Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This just shows why policy should not specify. This is an area where the > maintainer should be allowed to use common sense. > > If you maintain a package, you _wrote_ the init script. You know if it > supports reload, and if so, you use it. Otherwise, you know it supports > restart and you use that. > > Unless you posit maintainers are stupid, I don't see why we need policy here. > And if we follow your suggested modification to policy, we will be making a > reccommendation in policy that is often suboptimal.
I agree that this shouldn't be specified in policy, but I just thought I'd point out that if you actually wanted to do ``reload if possible, otherwise restart'' then what you want is ``force-reload'' Cheers, Phil.
