doc: convert the documentation to the block format

The syntax overview no longer describes a line-based format, since that
is not what the rest of the documentation shows.  It now covers the
grammar, the two naming conventions, the nine aliases, and the leading
'-' on a path, and it says plainly that both formats are still read and
told apart per file by content.  Without that, a reader with an
existing configuration is left wondering what happened to it.

service-opts.md was a list of modifiers to place between a directive
and its command, so it needed rewriting rather than translating: there
are no positions left to describe.  It is now grouped by what the
settings do.

conditions.md needed correcting.  It presented '!' as a condition
prefix alongside '~'.  It is neither a condition nor a negation, it is
a flag on the block that means one thing on a service and another on a
run or task, so it is spelled reload-signal and required here, and the
page maps the old form to both.

Two things the pages claimed are not true.  The kill delay range is
1-300, not 1-60, and stop and reload scripts are no longer run without
a timeout.

ChangeLog.md keeps its line-based examples.  Those sit in historical
release entries, and rewriting them in a syntax that did not exist at
the time would misdate the format.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ calls `init-script restart` on `initctl reload`. Similar to how
`service` stanzas work.
Forking services started with `sysv` scripts can be monitored by Finit
by declaring the PID file to look for: `pid:!/path/to/pidfile.pid`.
Notice the leading `!`, it signifies Finit should not try to create the
file, but rather watch that file for the resulting forked-off PID. This
by declaring the PID file to look for: `pidfile = "/path/to/file.pid"`.
Finit does not create that file, it watches it for the resulting
forked-off PID, which is the default; `pidfile-create = true` is what
asks Finit to write it instead. This
syntax also works for forking daemons that do not have a command line
option to run it in the foreground, more on this below in `service`.
@@ -64,7 +65,12 @@ Start/Stop Scripts
For syntax details, see [SysV Init Scripts](#sysv-init-scripts), above.
Here follows an example taken from a Debian installation:
sysv [2345] <pid/syslogd> /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd -- OpenBSD inet daemon
sysv inetd {
description = "OpenBSD inet daemon"
runlevel = "2345"
conditions = { "pid/syslogd" }
command = "/etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd"
}
The init script header could be parsed to extract `Default-Start:` and
other parameters for the `sysv` command to Finit. There is currently no