From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:53:00 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: tone down the note that reboot/halt/poweroff are legacy
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man: tone down the note that reboot/halt/poweroff are legacy

They may be old (or rather compatible implementations of old commands), but
they certainly are not going away. Apart from privilege escalation through
polkit, they are mostly equivalent.
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diff --git a/man/halt.xml b/man/halt.xml
index 0abcdb475cb..78860d94dd8 100644
--- a/man/halt.xml
+++ b/man/halt.xml
@@ -166,8 +166,12 @@
   <refsect1>
     <title>Notes</title>
 
-    <para>These are legacy commands available for compatibility
-    only.</para>
+    <para>These commands are implemented in a way that preserves compatiblity with
+    the original SysV commands.
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    verbs <command>halt</command>, <command>poweroff</command>,
+    <command>reboot</command> provide the same functionality with some additional
+    features.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>