Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Andrey Rahmatullin - 05.02.20, 22:17:14 CET:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 07:44:43AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > > We just had a GR where the project voted it was just fine to
> > > systemd all the things, so this sort of thing is to be expected.
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that voters fully understood the implications?
> > Is this OK now to replace everything with systemd counterparts?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I certainly voted with considerations for _init_ system.
> > 
> > If I recall correctly, no GR option suggested to "use as much
> > systemd
> > components as possible" or I think the outcome of GR could have been
> > different...
> 
> The winning option says "Packages may use any systemd facility at the
> package maintainer's discretion, provided that this is consistent with
> other Policy requirements and the normal expectation that packages
> shouldn't depend on experimental or unsupported (in Debian) features
> of other packages".
> You can read it at https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002#textb

Hmmm, for me this still reads different than: "Ok, let's change the 
default logging system."

Cause if I understood above wording correctly, then it means a package 
may use a Systemd feature. But this would only affect this one package. 
However here a system wide default of the system is changed.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin