Bug#949690: debian-policy: "service unit should have the same name as the package" seems too strong

2020-01-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Sean" == Sean Whitton writes: Sean> Encouragement is still normative, so if we're going to encourage it, Sean> it would be better to say /when/ it's encouraged and when it's not. I think it should be encouraged when there is not a good reason to do otherwise. I think the most com

Bug#949690: debian-policy: "service unit should have the same name as the package" seems too strong

2020-01-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 24 Jan 2020 at 10:47AM -05, Sam Hartman wrote: > I think should -> encouraged would go a lot of the way. > Especially with a sentence along the lines of > "Often, preserving an upstream's choice of service unit name is more > important than having a service unit match a package's na

Bug#949690: debian-policy: "service unit should have the same name as the package" seems too strong

2020-01-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> Ah, hm, yes, that's a good point that I didn't notice when copying that Russ> Policy recommendation over from the recommendations on init scripts. Russ> The obvious concern here is that multiple packages could use the same Russ> servic