Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Ian Jackson 

> I think you have misunderstood.  Or perhaps I hae misunderstood you.
> The "work" that I'm saying needs to be done anyway is the work to
> disentange the parts of systemd which are required by (say) GNOME from
> the parts which are only relevant for systemd as init.
> 
> This is work that would have to be done by the systemd maintainers in
> Debian.

I find it quite clear that this should be done and maintained by the
people who want to run such an configuration.  I am not running any
non-systemd desktop systems and would be in a very poor positition to be
able to do this work.  I also have no interest in it, which I think
should be pretty clear given my previous mails on the subject.

We've also said quite clearly that we'd gladly accept a co-maintainer
who wants to maintain this configuration, but nobody has shown up yet.
(Martin Pitt has worked a bit with us on getting the patches from Ubuntu
integrated, but AIUI, he's not been able to offer a long-term commitment
to maintaining the patches, and I think it's a very bad idea to merge a
patchset that nobody in the team wants to maintain long-term.)

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