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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 21 2019, @07:24PM (2 children)
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday January 22 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
But then what do you do all day long?
A sysadmin's home system should *always* be on the brink. Because they should be so busy experimenting with it that they never get anything fully stable :)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:41PM
Try to look busy without actually doing anything.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.