Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support
Sad to read Debian is walking to be single init software, unlike other
more open distros. This is not "The universal operating system" direction.
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El 15/10/18 a les 06:56, Petter Reinholdtsen ha escrit:
> [Thorsten Glaser]
>> The QA page says: “The BTS contains patches fixing 49 bugs (63
>> if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.”
>> This is indeed a sad state. What does the team “Debian sysvinit
>> maintainers” say about those?
>
> Nothing. There is in reality no team any more. There seem to be just
> me, who is lacking both the required spare time and interest to do good
> job, but still try to fix the gravest problems while waiting for someone
> with time and interest to adapt the packages. The packages have been in
> need of adoption for several years, as can be seen from for example
> <URL: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-sysvinit-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org >.
>
> I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be
> removed unless someone with time and interest show up to take care of
> them. A good start would be to split initscripts off from the sysvinit
> binary packages, to let them live separate lives. It will be sad, but
> the proper way for Debian to handle unmaintained packages in a sad
> state.
>
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