[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Bill Nottingham]

Till Maas (opensource at till.name) said: 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 04:57:29PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> 
> > Packages which have SysV initscripts that contain 'non-standard service
> > commands' (commands besides start, stop, reload, restart, or
> > try-restart) must convert those commands into standalone helper scripts.
> > Systemd does not support non-standard unit commands.
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files
> 
> The guideline for SysV initscripts[0] also specifies the commands
> force-reload, status and usage. Why are these dropped?

status is a standard command, although scripts that do non-obvious status things
would need to implement them in other ways. (See 'network status', as an
example.)

force-reload is a standard command.

usage is not a standard command... since systemd enforces a standard set of
verbs, it's sort of obsolete.

Bill