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Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream



Ahoj,

Dňa Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:53:01 -0400 Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> napísal:

> Martin Read wrote:
> > On 26/09/14 16:09, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >> So let's see:
> >> - the technical committee selects takes a vote that essentially
> >> imposes systemd on all of the upstream developers and packagers
> >
> > The technical committee has no authority (and limited soft power)
> > with respect to what *upstream* developers (i.e. the people who
> > write the software that Debian members then choose to package for
> > inclusion in Debian) do or don't do. It has bounded authority and
> > power to decide what work is expected to be done or not done in
> > Debian, and thus over what is provided *downstream* (i.e. to
> > Debian's users).
> >
> > And a sizeable chunk of the upstream work for *compatibility with 
> > systemd* has already been done in response to events in Fedora,
> > Arch, OpenSUSE, etc. At this point, it seems to me that any
> > upstream who hasn't already done something to improve their
> > software's compatibility with systemd (if it even needs any work to
> > achieve such a thing) is more likely to say "bug reports only
> > reproducible on systemd are your problem, not mine" than "oh, well,
> > if Debian has gone with it as well maybe I'll have a look".
> 
> And the next step is to stop paying attention to old style init
> scripts.
> 

Yes, then next step is go away from Debian.

regards

-- 
Slavko
http://slavino.sk

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