On 14Oct23:2035+0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: > That's not the point. From the technical point of > view, IMO, you are correct but that's not the only > view that exists in Debian Project, me thinks. [snip] > My choices reg. my use of technology isn't based > only on technical grounds, you know. There are legal considerations pertaining to global software redistribution, of course. There are financial considerations beyond Debian's licensing and support fees, to be sure, but those and other categories of non-technical considerations are entirely outside of the Debian organization as I see it--they are user considerations. The Social Contract guides the Debian process but defining what is best for the users can be difficult because most users do not interact with the developers. It is clear from the TC ruling there was considerable concern the change of default init needed to be handled very carefully, a concern almost entirely based upon how the change can adversely affect existing users. Note the Debian team does not force anyone to use Debian but often expends effort to improve Debian from the point of view of some large percentage of the users with a lot of effort invested in providing a distribution that is useful to an unusually wide range of users. Multi-init support is an oft-stated and highly desirable goal for Jessie. Report any software behavior that hinders that as a bug at the earliest opportunity. That's the most likely way to effect the change you seek. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________
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