On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:47:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On 24 October 2013 08:39, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > No, please reread that mail from the release team. It is a *proposal* > > from the systemd maintainers to implement full systemd support. The > > release team have not said that they have endorsed this as a release > > goal (and frankly, I don't expect them to do so; it's not the release > > team's place to decide what Debian should use as its default init > > system, and to endorse such a release goal would presuppose such a > > decision). > By my reading of the proposal, it doesn't change the default init system. > It only proposes to ship systemd service file with every package that ships > an init.d script, so if you don't want to change you don't have to. The > release time can endorse this proposal and not make any decision on the > default init system. Yes, but the release team should not be giving some developer carte blanche to upload such changes as NMUs to all service-providing packages in the archive if it's not going to be our default init system. > If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, > this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd. Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should be separated out in the packaging. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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