3 The default init system decision is limited to selecting a default
4 initsystem for jessie. We expect that Debian will continue to
5 support multiple init systems for the foreseeable future; we
6 continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems.
10 Therefore, for jessie and later releases, we exercise our power to
11 set technical policy (Constitution 6.1.1):
15 Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require
16 a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is
19 Maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches
20 to enable improved interoperation with various init systems.
24 If the project passes (before the release of jessie) by a General
25 Resolution, a "position statement about issues of the day", on the
26 subject of init systems, the views expressed in that position
27 statement entirely replace the substance of this TC resolution; the
28 TC hereby adopts any such position statement as its own decision.
30 Such a position statement could, for example, use these words:
32 The Project requests (as a position statement under s4.1.5 of the
33 Constitution) that the TC reconsider, and requests that the TC
34 would instead decide as follows: