Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems
* Bdale Garbee (bdale@gag.com) [140503 01:54]:
> 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.
There are two different thoughts in my mind:
1. This shows in a very wrong direction. Upstart support might not be
useful for long, but it is now, and dropping a useful feature should
only happen if there is a cause for.
2. There are things I worry more about with this particular maintainer
than that. So if we think about overruling him, there might be better
uses for.
Andi
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