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Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems



Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> Package: tech-ctte
>
> An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my
> attention:
>
>  tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low
>  
>    * Removing upstart hacks, they are ugly and upstart is dead now.
>
> Since various members of the Technical Committee argued that choosing a
> default would not prevent Debian from supporting other init systems, I would
> like to hear from those members how they think this should be
> addressed.

In general, pulling upstart support while upstart still exists in Debian
feels wrong.

However, since this is in experimental, and not in a released tree or
release candidate, this particular case is hard for me to get worked up
about. 

Bdale

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