Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > M. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the
> > foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities
> > and code remain healthy. Software outside of an init system's
> > implementation may not require a specific init system to be
> > pid 1, although degraded operation is tolerable.
I still don't think the last sentence of this paragraph completely
handles the cases where someone can legitimately depend on a specific
init system or specific init system interface.
If we're supporting multiple init systems, then software which doesn't
support multiple init systems which could feasibly do so is buggy. If
patches to fix it appear and aren't applied, then people can appeal to
the CTTE. It's not necessary or feasible for us to anticipate every
single technical wrinkle and delay making a decision to do so.
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