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

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:02PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:02PM (#789696)

    :) The thing is that in 2019 we don't want a distro that requires a double PhD in CS. We need something to put on a disc/usb and hand it to Joe Public, Auntie May, install for family, friends - and not open up a can of whoopass that immunises them from ever trying Linux again. So we need a mainstream major distro, like Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, or Arch to make the move. Gentoo and Slackware are too hands-on terminal-heavy for the average user. I run Mint as I can get work done and not play sysadmin all day long.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 21 2019, @07:24PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday January 21 2019, @07:24PM (#789719) Homepage Journal

    So, like I said then. Also, just a side note, if you're a competent sysadmin, you don't play it all day long. You hardly ever have to play it at all because you've automated away everything that doesn't require your constant attention.

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