From eda6c4488b8fd8e790c5e3e16c6cdbe45cec3415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:23:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 727708: coupling proposal: Ian proposing clarification amendment <21252.48158.359117.895167@chiark.greenend.org.uk> --- 727708_initsystem/coupling-iwj-col-iwj.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 727708_initsystem/coupling-iwj-col-iwj.txt diff --git a/727708_initsystem/coupling-iwj-col-iwj.txt b/727708_initsystem/coupling-iwj-col-iwj.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc229ea --- /dev/null +++ b/727708_initsystem/coupling-iwj-col-iwj.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +[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 a tolerable bug. So the lack of + 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: -- 2.39.5