On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 23:47 -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 03:38:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > While backporters must ensure that the dependencies of backported > > packages can be met in stable+backports, there is no requirement that > > they must be coinstallable with all the same packages as the version in > > stable. > > Hi Ben, thanks for the reply. > > This seems odd to me. It is changing requirements for a pretty fundamental > part of the distribution. It violates my expectations for what is allowed > in backports. Perhaps that expectation is not correct, however. > > > systemd-shim is not present in testing and will probably not be in the > > next release. So you should either help to fix the RC bugs in systemd- > > shim or prepare to use systemd as pid 1 wherever you need to run other > > systemd daemons. > > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that > no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and has RC bugs. sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only ever made one upload (over a year ago). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken
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