Bill Myers <bill_my...@outlook.com> writes: > I think the issue of whether packages can depend on a specific init to > be pid 1 is essentially identical to whether packages can depend on a > specific kernel (Linux vs FreeBSD vs Hurd) to be running.
> I'm not sure what the exact Debian policy is for that, but just copying > that seems to me the most natural decision. It's conceptually similar, but since kernels are tied directly to a Debian architecture, it's easier to handle the kernel case using our existing infrastructure. There just isn't a binary package for that architecture if it doesn't work with that kernel, and most of the problematic cases, such as switching between init systems, don't apply in an analogous way. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wqhbkhvh....@windlord.stanford.edu
