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Michael Biebl, long-time maintainer of systemd for Debian (2010 or earlier, based on changelog.Debian.gz), is taking undetermined holidays from packaging it. The e-mail was short:
Will stop maintaining systemd in debian for a while.
What's going on is just too stupid/crazy.
This takes place after he discussed a bug in which he expected systemd to respect local settings, and not rename network devices:
@yuwata a default policy like /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link should never trump explicit user configuration.
Later he seems surprised about how things roll there:
I'm amazed that I have to point this out....
The issue is locked currently, and also archived just in case, so everyone can read the initial report and the replies he got.
Opinion: It seems distribution developers are starting to get the stick too, not just users with their "errors" (taken from a reply). Will distributions finally wake up or is that they don't still grok the attitude of projects like this? [Or is it something else? --Ed.]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @09:44AM
I have to agree with that diversity is a strength of GNU+Linux distros. Being able to choose a distro to fit any given need has always been a big bonus, but it's less and less if everyone does everything same as systemd attempts to do. It would be difficult for every distro to mandate init agnosticism however, but I think having a good crack at supporting more than one and not forcing any packages relating to other inits is worth doing.