1 L Software may not depend on a specific init system
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6 The default init system decision is limited to selecting a default
7 initsystem for jessie. We expect that Debian will continue to
8 support multiple init systems for the foreseeable future; we
9 continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems.
13 Therefore, for jessie and later releases, we exercise our power to
14 set technical policy (Constitution 6.1.1):
18 In general, software may not require a specific init system to be
19 pid 1. The exceptions to this are as follows:
21 * alternative init system implementations
22 * special-use packages such as managers for init systems
23 * cooperating groups of packages intended for use with specific init
26 provided that these are not themselves required by other software
27 whose main purpose is not the operation of a specific init system.
29 Degraded operation with some init systems is tolerable, so long as
30 the degradation is no worse than what the Debian project would
31 consider a tolerable (non-RC) bug even if it were affecting all
32 users. So the lack of support for a particular init system does not
33 excuse a bug nor reduce its severity; but conversely, nor is a bug
34 more serious simply because it is an incompatibility of some software
35 with some init system(s).
37 Maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches
38 to enable improved interoperation with various init systems.
42 If the project passes (before the release of jessie) by a General
43 Resolution, a "position statement about issues of the day", on the
44 subject of init systems, the views expressed in that position
45 statement entirely replace the substance of this TC resolution; the
46 TC hereby adopts any such position statement as its own decision.
48 Such a position statement could, for example, use these words:
50 The Project requests (as a position statement under s4.1.5 of the
51 Constitution) that the TC reconsider, and requests that the TC
52 would instead decide as follows: