Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-26 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +pending Hello Russ, Ansgar, Thank you for the valuable discussion. I too second the below. I compared the text to be removed and README.runlevels side-by-side, and discovered that some ideas, explanation of which we are removing, are implicitly assumed by README.runlevels. I'v

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> I'm hesitant to remove all discussion of run levels because package >> maintainers are still responsible for choosing a run level at which to >> start their service and providing that run level as an argument to >> update-rc.d. > No, maintainer scripts ca

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-23 Thread Ansgar
Russ Allbery writes: > I'm hesitant to remove all discussion of run levels because package > maintainers are still responsible for choosing a run level at which to > start their service and providing that run level as an argument to > update-rc.d. No, maintainer scripts call `update-rc.d defaults

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > On Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 09:01AM +02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Control: reassign -1 debian-policy >> >> The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about >> /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. > Are you saying that they are *

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 29 Sep 2019 at 10:21AM +02, Ansgar wrote: > I think README.runlevels documents everything about how rcn.d scripts > are called that Policy also documents (at least the part removed in my > diff). Okay, thanks for the feedback. It would be good to have a third party review the othe

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-29 Thread Ansgar
Sean Whitton writes: > On Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 09:01AM +02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about >> /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. > > Are you saying that they are *currently* better explained by actually >

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 09:01AM +02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Control: reassign -1 debian-policy > > The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about > /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Are you saying that they are *currently* better expl

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 debian-policy The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Also the rationale for why `DISABLED=yes` (or similar) fits better into a footnote than the main text (IMHO). (Policy also shou

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: patch The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Also the rationale for why `DISABLED=yes` (or similar) fits better into a footnote than the main text (IMHO).