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: 4, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Monday January 21 2019, @02:22PM (1 child)
Absolutely. What's more they need to do the same for any software projects that decide to require systemd. The fact that the open source community didn't dump Gnome on the trash heap of software history when they did so has always astonished me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:04PM
Some of us did. You'll never get 100% - the maintainers at least are unlikely to dump their own stuff - and it sounds like I'm not alone, but I don't know where the general consensus on gnome ended up.