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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:07PM (1 child)
Just like Ubuntu add featureware onto Debian and Mint in turn repair the damage from both upstreams. Hey, what would we call a Mint derived from Devuan instead of Debian? Muant?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 21 2019, @08:07PM
That would be a good thing for Mint to take notice of.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.