Bug#975075: Closing as this has been resolved without the TC needing to intervene
Hi,
It's been a while since this bug was dealt with and I was tasked with
closing
it, I'm sorry that it took so long to write this reply.
The technical committee declines to overrule the NetworkManager and
udisks2
maintainer on this matter.
Instead, by working together with the maintainer of the affected
packages, we
managed to achieve a compromise solution: the dependency on
libpam-systemd was
lowered to a recommends so that it's still possible to install the
package
without it, while a separate package was introduced to carry the removed
init
scripts.
This compromise solution allows users of other init systems to still use
network-manager and udisks2, without imposing additional work on the
maintainer
to support those other systems.
As has been mentioned in the bug, this compromise was achieved through
private
discussions between the technical committee and the maintainer. We
recognize
that these kind of private discussions are not ideal and can lead to
frustration on the side of those that just hear about the results of the
discussions without being able to participate in them. On the other
hand, we
also recognize that some maintainers have been burned out by some
particularly
contentious issues, and would rather not discuss them publicly.
In the general case, the Technical Committee urges users and maintainers
to
communicate openly and try to find compromise solutions like this one.
Thanks,
Marga on behalf of the Technical Committee
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