Miloslav Trmač (mitr(a)volny.cz) said:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Till Maas
<opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
>> 2) Don't package a legacy action for new scripts or actions that were not
>> supported by the prior init script; this is intended for compatibility with
>> existing scripts and/or administrator brains.
>
> It would be nice to have a good plan about how to implement the
> preferred new way to accomplish such tasks to avoid that every package
> does this differently.
The preferred new way is that upstream implements the action in a way
that is same across all distributions. Which, in some sense, does not
answer your question.
To pick a couple of examples:
*tables implement operations such as 'panic' or 'save'. postfix
implements
'flush'. These are not the sorts of commands that can be easily genericized
across multiple packages.
Bill