On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:21:56AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> writes: > > Santiago> El 10/9/23 a las 4:09, Russ Allbery escribió: > >> I therefore would like to propose a first: I think Policy should > >> simply say that any package that provides a system service should > >> use debhelper and rely on dh_installsystemd to put the > >> appropriate commands in its maintainer scripts. (We can then > >> discuss whether we should do the same for init scripts and > >> dh_installinit, although its stanzas are simpler.) > > Santiago> Hello. I don't like this approach, and I believe we are > Santiago> mixing two different things here. One of them is our > Santiago> ability (or lack thereof) of policy to catch up with real > Santiago> development done elsewhere. Another one is the fact that > Santiago> policy does not mandate any given implementation. > > The question in my mind is whether it is valuable to support multiple > implementations, and I think the answer is no.
But we do: we support debhelper 13.11.4 and debhelper 13.11.6. Even if we support a single implementation, we still need to know what is expected of it. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
