Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie"):
> Thus, I believe the only acceptable option for Q2 from among your set is
> "requiring a specific init is permitted even if it is not the default
> one".  But I would prefer to vote a ballot that doesn't mention
> dependencies at all. 

Keith Packard writes ("Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie"):
> I'm still very uncomfortable with any vote that would constrain our
> solution space past the Jessie release. I'm fairly convinced that we'll
> be supporting multiple init systems for a long time, but my vision gets
> very fuzzy out that far, and it's just possible I might be wrong.

I'm not going to try to talk you out of this.

In that case we need options on the ballot which don't contain any of
the texts on this question I was proposing, as well as options why do.

If there is noone who wants to explicitly say something like this

    O. Debian intends to converge on one init system; in jessie+1,
       packages may require that the default init system is in use.

then there is no point putting it on the ballot.

That would leave us with

    DM  systemd by default, but also others
    D-  systemd by default, say nothing else
    UM  upstart by default, but also others
    U-  upstart by default, say nothing else
    R-  openrc by default, say nothing else
    V-  sysvinit by default, say nothing else

I'm not going to push for RM and RV even though I would prefer them,
because I think R- and V- are more popular in the rest of the TC.

Ian.