Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd
On 10/16/2018 11:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:58:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 9:42 AM Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>>> It's currently at risk by a lack of maintainers for the sysvinit
>>> package.
>>
>> Does this mean that Devuan is also at risk?
>
> I can merely speculate. I know very little about Devuan, but the
> impression I have got in the last day (entirely via mails from other
> people to debian mailing lists, I have not investigated myself) is that
> they are short on people-power. (so is Debian, of course!)
>
> If sysvinit was removed from Debian, than this would increase the amount
> of work for Devuan quite significantly, because lots of individual
> Debian packages that currently implement sysvinit support would slowly
> start not to, and Devuan would have to patch support back in, over time.
>
> This would be more work, IMHO, than if interested parties collaborated
> to support the sysvinit package and keep it in Debian.
>
Hopefully, both parties (Debian/Devian) will come back to there senses
and will find a way to accomodate supporting Systemd and an alternative
init daemon.
--
John Doe
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