Bug#835490: debian-policy: remove references to upstart

[Russ Allbery]

Ansgar Burchardt  writes:

> Upstart is no longer part of Debian[1] nor actively maintained
> upstream.  Policy should drop references to it as an alternative init
> system.

> I've attached a patch to remove section 9.11.1 (actually to replace it
> with an empty stub to ensure there is no section 9.11.1 with different
> contents in the future).

Thanks, applied for the next release.

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Bug#835490: debian-policy: remove references to upstart

[Andrey Rahmatullin]

Seconded.

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Bug#835490: debian-policy: remove references to upstart

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:10:08 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt 
wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> 
> Upstart is no longer part of Debian[1] nor actively maintained
> upstream.  Policy should drop references to it as an alternative init
> system.
> 
> I've attached a patch to remove section 9.11.1 (actually to replace it
> with an empty stub to ensure there is no section 9.11.1 with different
> contents in the future).
> 
> Ansgar
> 
>   [1] 

Seconded.

Seems like a good idea to merge early in the buster development cycle.
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Bug#835490: debian-policy: remove references to upstart

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal

Upstart is no longer part of Debian[1] nor actively maintained
upstream.  Policy should drop references to it as an alternative init
system.

I've attached a patch to remove section 9.11.1 (actually to replace it
with an empty stub to ensure there is no section 9.11.1 with different
contents in the future).

Ansgar

  [1] 
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9cd182b..3c75da9 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8553,47 +8553,8 @@ exec /usr/lib/foo/foo "$@"
   scripts and may not have a one-to-one correspondence with the init
   scripts.
 
-
-  Event-based boot with upstart
-
-	  
-Packages may integrate with the upstart event-based
-boot system by installing job files in the
-/etc/init directory.  SysV init scripts for which
-an equivalent upstart job is available must query the output of
-the command initctl version for the string
-upstart and avoid running in favor of the native
-upstart job, using a test such as this:
-	
-if [ "$1" = start ] && which initctl >/dev/null && initctl version | grep -q upstart
-then
-	exit 1
-fi
-	
-  
-  
-Because packages shipping upstart jobs may be installed on
-systems that are not using upstart, maintainer scripts must
-still use the common update-rc.d and
-invoke-rc.d interfaces for configuring runlevels
-and for starting and stopping services.  These maintainer
-scripts must not call the upstart start,
-restart, reload, or stop
-interfaces directly.  Instead, implementations of
-invoke-rc.d must detect when upstart is running and
-when an upstart job with the same name as an init script is
-present, and perform the requested action using the upstart job
-instead of the init script.
-  
-  
-Dependency-based boot managers for SysV init scripts, such as
-startpar, may avoid running a given init script
-entirely when an equivalent upstart job is present, to avoid
-unnecessary forking of no-op init scripts.  In this case, the
-boot manager should integrate with upstart to detect when the
-upstart job in question is started or stopped to know when the
-dependency has been satisfied.
-  
+
+  (removed)