Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags 857322 patch Control: tags -1 patch Control: forcemerge -1 857322
Hi! > I suggest that this bug has its severity increased to at least "grave", > since it renders the package unusable on SysV-based systems. No, this does not warrant a serious severity as SysVInit support is no longer mandatory in Debian. This is a result of the CTTE's decision in 2014 to make systemd the default init system in Debian as well as the follow-up GR in the same year where Debian Developers decided that maintainers are not required to provide SysVInit compatibility. Whether SysVInit is supported or not is up to the maintainer of the individual package. Users who wish to continue to use the package with SysVInit can send a patch which provides SysVInit support but the corresponding bug report should be tagged with severity 'wishlist'. Please do not alter the severity to this bug report after it has been downgraded and respect the fact that Debian has made the decision to deprecate SysVInit. The bug report #857322 contains a patch which provides a SysVInit script [1]. I am merging it with this bug report since it is the same wishlist bug. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857322 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
