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