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One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd

posted by martyb on Monday January 21 2019, @07:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the their-way-or-the-highway dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Monday January 21 2019, @01:36PM (1 child)

    by driverless (4770) on Monday January 21 2019, @01:36PM (#789561)

    I must admit I was slightly surprised at Michael Biebl being surprised. I mean this is systemd we're talking about here, not something sane. It's like being a courtier to Charles the Mad (an actual King of France who among other things thought he was made of glass and could break if touched) and thinking it was just a meaningless nickname from childhood.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @01:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @01:56PM (#789573)

    Charles the Mad was made of glass though...