Steve,

Thanks for your work on this.

A few observations that I hope will help:

- In general this should be submitted to Debian: the package will be unusable
there with non-systemd inits. There are still non-systemd Debian users. They
will benefit as will Devuan.

- So, don't bother removing systemd support (it is no-op on non-systemd
systems), just add your new features on top.

- You don't need a patch in debian/patches to make modifications beneath
debain/, just change the files directly.

- Use init-d-script(5) for your new LSB initscript: it should make the script
much shorter and cleaner and possibly more palatable to the Debian
maintainer.

HTH

Mark