===== TITLE

Continuing support for multiple init systems

===== WEB SUMMARY

The technical committee expects maintainers to continue to support the
multiple available init systems.

===== EMAIL INTRO

The technical committe was asked in #746715 to address the removal of
support for upstart in a package.

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===== DECISION

The issue of init system support recently came to the Technical
Committee's attention again.[1]

For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support
the multiple available init systems in Debian.  That includes
merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing
support without a compelling reason.

[1] See #746715 for background.