Hi, On Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2014, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Speaking for no-one other than myself, I _am_ very unhappy that given > how long the discussion has been rumbling on for, and how much > opportunity there has been, that anyone thought that two weeks before > the freeze (which has had a fixed date for nearly a year now) was the > right time to raise this. Exactly. And for what exactly? Gnome right now is installable with systemd-shim + sysvinit, why can't this GR wait until after release when the dust has settled?
That's an awfully good reason FOR pushing the GR now.The TC stated, and passed a resolution to the effect of Debian continuing to support multiple init systems. If, as you say, "Gnome right now is installable with systemd-shim + sysvinit," those sound like release critical bugs in Gnome and/or systemd-shim - and precisely a reason to resolve this issue now, not kick it down the road.
This is a GR based on rumors, which is very sad.
Some us us want to continue to run production servers, w/o having major changes foisted on our systems - which, at the very least, will require significant testing, and possibly reconfiguration.
Breaking backwards compatibility is big deal. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra