Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

[Neil McGovern <neil@halon.org.uk>]

On 30 Dec 2013, at 18:47, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> However, I think it's the best available approach that balances our ideals
> as a project against the opportunities offered by a new init system.  This
> approach does permit full use of new init system features for jessie
> except for eliminating /etc/default files (which I doubt we'd successfully
> do quickly anyway), and opens up the full spectrum of use cases after
> jessie.  The cost is that packagers should merge contributed patches to
> the init systems that they don't use.  I don't think this is too much to
> ask, nor do I think it will have serious effects on package complexity
> based on my own experience configuring a package to work under all three
> init systems I considered.
> 

I’m no longer a RM, but I would echo Russ’ comments here - an ordered transition is very important for Debian releases - and the size of this transition would be something that (in my opinion) would be very hard to achieve in one release cycle.

Neil