[ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, Thorsten… ] On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be removed unless someone with time and interest show up to take care of them. A good start would be to split initscripts off from the sysvinit binary packages, to let them live separate lives. It will be sad, but the proper way for Debian to handle unmaintained packages in a sad state.
Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance? As a derivative distribution, I imagine their lives would become much harder if we did drop sysvinit; they would have to pay the cost of maintaining the sysvinit package themselves (which is what I am proposing they do now) *as well* as a rapidly growing delta of sysvinit-support/initscripts in lots of other packages, as they steadily rotted in Debian. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to debian-devel.