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-[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]
-
- Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require
- a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is
- tolerable.
-
- 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: