Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Sean Whitton
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:31:43PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > What I tried to do was to update the description to "current" *sysvinit* > standards. (Where "current" means several releases ago. Don't remember > when we made insserv/startpar non-optional in Debian but it was > definitely

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Sean Whitton, On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I second all of Andreas' patches except the 5th and 8th. I've attached > the diff to which my second applies. > > The 5th and 8th patches introduce a normative requirement to use > debhelper. This

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I second all of Andreas' patches except the 5th and 8th. I've attached > the diff to which my second applies. > > The 5th and 8th patches introduce a normative requirement to use > debhelper. This is a first for policy,

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > I second all of Andreas' patches except the 5th and 8th. I've attached > the diff to which my second applies. > > The 5th and 8th patches introduce a normative requirement to use > debhelper. This is a first for policy, which up to

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:55:30 -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: >> I've spoken to h01ger and gregoa IRL and they say that they missed the >> magic word "should" which is what makes debhelper required by these >> patches. So I'm seeking seconds for the

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:55:30 -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > I've spoken to h01ger and gregoa IRL and they say that they missed the > magic word "should" which is what makes debhelper required by these > patches. So I'm seeking seconds for the following replacement for > Andreas' 5th and 8th

Bug#835520: Seconding nine patches & seeking seconds for two more

2017-08-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I second all of Andreas' patches except the 5th and 8th. I've attached the diff to which my second applies. The 5th and 8th patches introduce a normative requirement to use debhelper. This is a first for policy, which up to now only comments that using debhelper is "easiest". I've